Famous Instagram influencer arrested for luring women to work as escorts, calls girls at New Year parties in Goa

SHIMLA: A very popular Instagram influencer was arrested for attempting to lure women and young girls to work as escorts and calls girls in the flesh trade for New Year parties at prominent clubs, restaurants and parties in Goa. Acting on a tip, the police caught the woman red-handed as she was paying two young models advance to travel to Goa tomorrow to serve clients who were booked in advance online via an escorts website that the woman pimp was associated with.

Meanwhile near Mumbai, the Thane police on Thursday conducted a raid at an outlet in a mall in Thane city of Maharashtra and arrested a woman for allegedly trying to lure other women into flesh trade, an official said.

Senior inspector Mahesh Patil of the Anti-Human Trafficking Cell of the Thane city police said his team rescued two women, who have acted in Hindi and Marathi serials and a few web series.

The official said that the arrested woman, believed to be about 30 years old, was trying to draw the two young women into prostitution by offering them good money. The raid was carried out in the Kapurbawdi area.

The two victims, aged about 25, have been sent to a rescue home and a case under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act has been registered. The local police are probing the crime, the official said. (With PTI inputs)