Prostitution racket, drug gang busted

Bengaluru, Sep 5: Central Crime Branch (CCB) police on Sunday busted a prostitution racket at a massage parlour on 10th Cross, HAL 3rd Stage, east Bengaluru.

Seven persons were arrested and six women were rescued. Police also seized Rs 94,000. The women from West Bengal had been promised jobs here and brought to Bengaluru. The arrested are Jayanth Shetty, 27, from Bommanahalli, Dheeraj Sharma, 24, from Uttarakhand, Chandwala, 38, from Jayanagar, Rajesh Kumar, 27, from Chennai, Arun N, 33, from Namakkal, Muzamil, 39, from Someshwaranagar and Vasu, 50, from Ahmedabad.

In another raid, CCB arrested five persons in Rajarajeshwari Nagar for selling marijuana. Purushotham, Ravi, Kalimuthu, Akram and Govind Prasad are all residents of Peenya. Officers said the men would get marijuana from other states and use youngsters from a nearby slum to sell it.