Overview
- A Faraskhana police team raided a first-floor flat in Janata Building on March 5 after a tip to DCP (Zone 1) Rishikesh Rawale, with the operation led by Senior Inspector Prashant Bhasme and independent witnesses.
- Indian Express reports five Bangladeshi nationals, including four women, were found and three men were arrested, while Hindustan Times reports four women were rescued and one arrest was made.
- Police say the victims were recruited with promises of beauty parlour or tailoring jobs, then confined, threatened, and forced into prostitution for the accused's gain.
- An FIR was registered at Faraskhana police station under BNS sections 143(1), 143(3), and 3(5), along with sections 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 of the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act.
- Those named in the case include arrested suspect Bhupsingh (Bhopsingh) Rajput, an alleged Bangladesh-based agent called Mulla, Babu Bhaiya alias Papa Shaikh, and property owner Meenakshi Ramesh Metri, with the cross-border trafficking route under investigation.