PUNE: The social security cell of Pimpri Chinchwad police on Tuesday night arrested four Nigerian women for running a sex racket in Pimple Gurav. The police have rescued 12 Nigerian women, who were allegedly forced into prostitution.
The police team raided the apartment based on a tip-off received by Pimpri Chinchwad police commissioner Krishna Prakash. The police have recovered cash worth Rs46,000 and seven cellphones from the flat.
Assistant commissioner Prerana Katte said, “For the past 20 days, the social security cell had been working on the tip-off. After collecting concrete information, on Tuesday night we sent four decoy customers to the flat in Pimple Gurav. We planned the raid after getting confirmation from the decoys.”
“We took four Nigerian women running the racket into custody. We found 12 women from Nigeria in the flat and sent them to a rescue home,” Katte added.
A case has been registered in this regard with the Sangvi police station.