MAPUSA
A Mapusa court on Saturday granted five-day police custody to two accused for allegedly pushing young women into flesh trade in an international sex trafficking racket even as Anjuna Police has written to the sub-divisional magistrate to seal the premises of two resorts where the alleged prostitution racket was going on.
The Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMFC) court, Mapusa granted the remand for five days based on the submissions of the Investigating Officer.
Anjuna Police had sought the remand of the accused “ Maria Dorcas and Wilkista Achista “ for five days to probe the wider angle of the crime and to arrest others involved in the illegal act.
Meanwhile, the third accused, a Nigerian who is supposed to be an accomplice in the crime is still at large.
“We have dispatched police teams to various places to locate and nab the Nigerian who is part of the sex racket,” informed Jivba Dalvi, Mapusa SDPO.
Anjuna Police has written to the sub-divisional magistrate to seal the premises of two resorts where the alleged flesh trade was going on.
“We have written to the deputy collector to seal the premises of Cosmos @ Greenspace hotel at Bamonvaddo, Siolim and Jolly Jolly Lester hotel at Vagator under Section 18 of the Immoral Traffic (prevention) Act 1956,” Dalvi said.
On Friday, Goa Police had unearthed an international sex trafficking racket in Anjuna and arrested the two accused who were Kenya nationals and rescued five young victim women who were also native of Kenya.
The NGO ‘ARZ’ who were tipped off about the sex racket played a crucial role in the entire operation to bust the racket and nab the accused.
The victims were falsely promised jobs in the hospitality industry by agents working on behalf of the traffickers based in Goa.
The traffickers seized the women’s passports and visas and literally tortured them by forcing them into prostitution.
The victims were kept in two hotels in Anjuna from where the alleged prostitution racket was going on.
