Five run sex racket at hotel, arrested

Coimbatore: The city police arrested five people, including franchise partners of a renowned hotel aggregator, on Sunday night on charges of running a prostitution racket at Saravanampatti.
The arrested comprise a 22-year-old woman from Ganapathipalayam in Tirupur and Sivakumar, 25, from Kandiyan Kovil in Tirupur, both franchise partners of the hotel aggregator at Saravanampatti, and their aides P Chandru alias Ranjith, 29, from Neelikonampalayam, H Faiz, 27, from Podanur and S Saddam Hussain, 29, from Kuniyamuthur. All of them were booked under sections 3(2)(a) and 4(2)(c) of the Immoral Trafficking (Prevention) Act. A woman from Chennai, who ran the sexual racket, is on the run.
Police said the Tirupur-based woman and her business partner facilitated the prostitution racket at their hotel at Akkammal Garden in Chinna Mettupalayam in Saravanampatti while Chandru, Faiz and Saddam assisted them in bringing college students and women to the hotel after luring them on social media with promises of a quick buck.
While hotels are not allowed to function during lockdown, this facility allegedly functioned for select guests.
The prostitution racket was exposed when a four-member gang entered the hotel premises on Saturday afternoon and looted gold ornaments, cash and mobile phones from the couples staying there. They also damaged CCTV cameras and took away the digital video recorder. The gang had also attacked the hotel staff.
The hotel staff filed a police complaint of robbery. During interrogation, police came to know that some couples were illegally staying in the hotel .
Police interrogated Faiz and Saddam Hussain, who spilled the beans and admitted they were staying at hotel with their ‘lovers’.
The arrested persons will be produced before a judicial magistrate on Monday.