Immoral Trafficking

The husband of an IAS officer was held on charges of "immoral trafficking" after he was found with a woman at a house in Sarabha Nagar here during a raid, police said on Sunday.

The BJP's Meghalaya leader Bernard N Marak -- under investigation for alleged immoral trafficking -- has claimed that he is meeting party leaders to apprise them about the "political conspiracy" against him.

The Punjab Police Sunday claimed to have busted an alleged gambling and immoral trafficking racket active in the Mohali district after arresting 70 people, including 10 women, during a late night operation at a city marriage palace, officials said.

The Supreme Court on Friday said that sex workers even though not caught or convicted for immoral trafficking could not take the shelter of law to resist their eviction from a brothel.

Faced with widespread outrage after mid-day reported on couples being picked up from hotel rooms in a raid at Madh and Aksa, Police Commissioner Rakesh Maria has issued a circular to his men, asking them to avoid trampling all over citizens' privacy, or face legal action

Mumbai Police's social service branch, which is headed by hockey stick-wielding cop Vasant Dhoble, raided a bar in suburban Mumbai on Friday night. The raid was conducted on Sangam Bar in Malad and the police say 14 bar girls were rescued and 28 customers and three employees of the bar were arrested. They have been booked under various sections of...

The Haryana police officer heading the probe into the sexual exploitation and physical and mental torture of inmates at the Apna Ghar shelter home in Rohtak has been arrested for destruction of evidence, police said on Friday.

As the pro and anti-Dhoble parties continue to seek their own justice, another establishment in the city came under the police's axe last week. Instead of the usual targets of nightclubs or restaurants, this time it was a spa whose owner was allegedly abused by the police, while her shop was vandalised in broad daylight.

He's no movie star. But assistant commissioner of police (ACP) Vasant Dhoble of Social Service (SS) branch apparently has his photographs lying around in people's desk drawers. Well, not just any people. During a a raid at a hotel Dhoble found his photographs from a drawer close to the cash counter. The staff allegedly revealed that they had been g...

Small-time silver screen actress who was arrested in a raid on Saturday night, for allegedly running a high-profile sex racket in a multi star hotel, was sent to magisterial custody yesterday. Twenty-one-year-old Azhara Jan Gulam Ahmed Sheikh alias Zara, a native of Kashmir, has been arrested along with film industry spot boy Niraj Ashok Badhani (2...

The husband of an IAS officer was held on charges of "immoral trafficking" after he was found with a woman at a house in Sarabha Nagar here during a raid, police said on Sunday.

The BJP's Meghalaya leader Bernard N Marak -- under investigation for alleged immoral trafficking -- has claimed that he is meeting party leaders to apprise them about the "political conspiracy" against him.

The Punjab Police Sunday claimed to have busted an alleged gambling and immoral trafficking racket active in the Mohali district after arresting 70 people, including 10 women, during a late night operation at a city marriage palace, officials said.

The Supreme Court on Friday said that sex workers even though not caught or convicted for immoral trafficking could not take the shelter of law to resist their eviction from a brothel.

Faced with widespread outrage after mid-day reported on couples being picked up from hotel rooms in a raid at Madh and Aksa, Police Commissioner Rakesh Maria has issued a circular to his men, asking them to avoid trampling all over citizens' privacy, or face legal action

Mumbai Police's social service branch, which is headed by hockey stick-wielding cop Vasant Dhoble, raided a bar in suburban Mumbai on Friday night. The raid was conducted on Sangam Bar in Malad and the police say 14 bar girls were rescued and 28 customers and three employees of the bar were arrested. They have been booked under various sections of...

The Haryana police officer heading the probe into the sexual exploitation and physical and mental torture of inmates at the Apna Ghar shelter home in Rohtak has been arrested for destruction of evidence, police said on Friday.

As the pro and anti-Dhoble parties continue to seek their own justice, another establishment in the city came under the police's axe last week. Instead of the usual targets of nightclubs or restaurants, this time it was a spa whose owner was allegedly abused by the police, while her shop was vandalised in broad daylight.

He's no movie star. But assistant commissioner of police (ACP) Vasant Dhoble of Social Service (SS) branch apparently has his photographs lying around in people's desk drawers. Well, not just any people. During a a raid at a hotel Dhoble found his photographs from a drawer close to the cash counter. The staff allegedly revealed that they had been g...

Small-time silver screen actress who was arrested in a raid on Saturday night, for allegedly running a high-profile sex racket in a multi star hotel, was sent to magisterial custody yesterday. Twenty-one-year-old Azhara Jan Gulam Ahmed Sheikh alias Zara, a native of Kashmir, has been arrested along with film industry spot boy Niraj Ashok Badhani (2...