An accused in the case of luring a Kashmiri girl into prostitution on the pretext of a job did not come to the hands of the Nawabad police even on Sunday. This accused had taken Richie Land Hotel located in Jule Chowk area on contract.
Police Raid
When the police raided the hotel on Saturday, the hotel manager and two touts were nabbed, but Palanwala Akhnoor, resident of Satish Sharma, who was running the hotel on contract, was absconding.
The three arrested accused told the police that they had similarly forced many other Kashmiri girls into prostitution on the pretext of providing them jobs.
The police is now trying to get information about those girls. Among the three accused arrested in this case, Mohammad Altaf resident of Handwara, Kupwara, Asif Hussain resident of Anantnag, Kashmir and Tejkrishna are also originally from Kashmir.
Tejkrishna has been described as the manager of the hotel, who currently lives in Jagti area of Nagrota. The Nawabad police have taken the three accused on five-day remand for questioning.
SHO Nawabad Surendra Raina said that by interrogating the three accused arrested in this case, information is being obtained about other people involved in prostitution.
Accused told the Police
Both the touts from Kashmir, who were caught in this case, have told the police that they had got many other girls from Kashmir in search of work in Jammu in search of work by calling them to the hotel on the pretext of getting them jobs.
After pushing these girls into prostitution once, they blackmailed them and got them to do so in the future as well. These girls are still in touch with him.
Whenever a customer is found, he has been calling these girls and taking them to a hotel in Jammu to get them done for prostitution.
Police on work
The police is trying to find out who all have been involved with the accused in this business. Two cases came to light in five days Nawababad police on Saturday arrested three people on the charge of getting a girl into prostitution at Richie Land Hotel in Jule Chowk area.
Earlier on Wednesday, Nawabad police had arrested three people involved in prostitution after rescuing a minor girl from another hotel located in the same area. In this case too, an accused is still absconding, for whom the police is on the lookout.
