High-end sex racket busted, foreign celebrities held

Aug 22, 2012, 01:17AM



Jajpur, Odisha: The police on Tuesday claimed to have busted a high-profile sex racket and arrested six persons, including three students, from a house at Jajpur Road township.

The arrested persons have been identified as Papindrapal Singh (28), house owner, Kaushik Pradhan (22), Alfaranjan Nayak (25), Sujit Kumar Lohar (26) (all are the students of Industrial Training Institute) and Madhusudan Das (25).

Police also arrested a woman allegedly involved in the flesh trade.

According to media reports, some foreign celebrities have also been detained and being interrogated.

Acting on a tip-off, a Jajpur Road police team raided the building at Dhabalagiri under municipal town limits and arrested six persons in connection in it.

"We had specific information that a sex racket was operating from a residential building at Dhabalagiri for the past few months. Based on this information, a raid was conducted in the wee hours on Monday and six persons, including a sex worker, were arrested," said Aswini Kumar Sahu, inspector-in-charge of Jajpur Road police station.

The police have also seized three motorcycles, five mobile phones and some cash from their possession.

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