Man, six women held for running ‘sex racket’ in spa

GURGAON: The police on Sunday claimed to have busted a sex racket operating out of a spa in a mall on Golf Course Road.

Police teams arrested six women and a man during a search operation at the mall on Saturday.

The police said two of the six arrested women are natives of Thailand and Kenya.

A case has been registered at the Sector 53 police statio under sections 3,4,5,7,8,9 of the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act of 1956.

The seven accused were sent to 14 days’ judicial custody after being produced in a city court, the police said.

“The sex racket was being operated at a Thai spa in Central Plaza Mall on Golf Course Road,” Ravinder Kumar, public relations officer (PRO), Gurgaon Police, said.

Acting on a tip-off, the Sector 53 police sent decoy customers to the spa where they found the staff involved in flesh trade.

The decoy customers signalled the police team waiting outside the building, who then carried out a search operation. Police confirmed that they raided the spa following a complaint that a sex racket was being operated there.

Kumar said that although the accused man had hired the women to administer massage, they were being used to run the sex racket.

Police also said that more such search operations will be conducted in the coming days to curb such illegal practices in the city.

On June 29, the Gurgaon police had busted sex rackets operating out of spas in two different malls on MG Road and Golf Course Road.

Ten women and a man, including a spa manager, were arrested by the police.

On August 19, a sex racket operating out of a spa in Block C of Sushant Lok was busted. The spa owner and two women were arrested.

On January, 14 women and four men were arrested from the DLF 2 area and a shopping mall for allegedly operating a sex racket.