NASHIK: The rural police arrested two people, including a woman, in the Gangapur Road area of the city for their alleged connection in forcing three women into prostitution.On getting a tip-off about the prostitution racket that was being run in an apartment in the Old Gangapur Naka area of the city, Sarkarwada police sent a decoy customer to verify the information. When the decoy customer responded in the affirmative, police conducted a raid in the flat where they found the three women. The victims, all around 20-years-old, were rescued and moved to the government woemn’s hostel in the Ashok Stambh area.Senior police inspector of Sarkarwada police station Ashok Bhagat said that the suspects had taken the third-floor flat on rent on January 22 and kept all the three women there. He further added that the police busted the racket within a fortnight.While two victims are from Navi Mumbai, one is from Panchavati area of the city. The suspects had kept some sarees in the flat to show that they were running a saree business.Bhagat said that the suspects have been remanded in police custody for three days for further investigation. Both the suspects are from Nashik Police said that they were keeping a strict vigil on such illegal businesses that were operating in the city. On October 31, Gangapur police busted a prostitution centre in the ST Colony area of the city from where nine women from Bangladesh, Kolkata and Maharashtra were rescued.

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