Vadodara: Spas with Thai female staff raided

VADODARA: The Gandhinagar CID (crime) on Tuesday registered an offence against various spa centres for hiring foreigners without proper documentation.
The CID sleuths formed six teams to raid seven spa centres in the city on Monday and found all of them hiring female staff from Thailand flouting Foreigners Amendment Act 2004.
According to the CID, people of foreign origin have to take proper work permit before getting employment in the country. But when they learnt that spa centres in the city were blatantly flouting the permit norms and hiring foreign women who were staying in the country on multiple entry visa, they carried out the surprise raid.
These women worked as masseurs in the spa centres without any valid work permit.
CID raided spa centres on Vasna-Bhayli Road, Alkapuri, Old Padra Road, Akota, Akshar Chowk and Gorwa on Monday. Nearly 23 Thai women were found employed illegally in these spa centres.
While the police is yet to act against the owners, the foreigners may be sent back to their country. Such raids have been conducted by the local police in the past too.