Eleven Girls From Northeast Rescued From Prostitution

By A Selvaraj

Chennai, Oct 16 : The anti-vice squad of the police has arrested three persons, including two women, from two massage parlours in Alwarpet and Nandanam on prostitution charges. Eleven girls from Manipur and Assam, who worked as trainees in these parlours, have been rescued.

On Friday, police raided Sukko Spa on Eldams Road in Alwarpet and Banyan Tree Family Spa Academy in CIT Nagar, Nandanam. Police had sent decoys to the parlours nearly five times before they managed to confirm that they offered sexual favours to regular customers.

Suba alias Aancy (32) and Sunitha (35), both hailing from Kerala, and Balaji (23) of Chennai, have been charged under Sections of the Immoral Trafficking (Prohibition) Act. They were produced before the fourth metropolitan magistrate court in Saidapet and sent to Puzhal prison.

Police said these parlours offered sexual favours only to regular clients. "They wait to gain the customer's confidence. It's quite difficult to crack such cases. We sent the decoys to the parlours, acting on a tip-off.Each time we spent Rs 3,000 to Rs 5,000 to settle the bill," he said.

Police teams rescued four Manipuri girls from one parlour and seven others from Manipur and Assam from the other.

Suba had earlier been arrested for running a brothel with young girls from Manipur and Assam. For the past few months, she has been running a special course on massage therapy. As a part of internship, the students were taken to the parlour. "Such girls are forced into prostitution.

The girls accept the job after being offered extra money," another police officer said.