2 brothel owners held; cops hunt for pimps who brought girls from various states

In two separate raids on brothels in Budhwar Peth, the Faraskhana police arrested two brothel owners and rescued 11 girls on Saturday.

The brothel owners were identified as Savita Samarbahadur Thapa (43) and Kancha Nepali (64).

According to the police, the rescued girls were brought to the city with the promise of marriage by pimps from states like Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal and sold to Thapa and Nepali.

They said some girls were tricked into coming here even from Nepal.

The police said they were now trying to catch the pimps involved in the trafficking of girls.

Thapa and Nepali were produced in court and remanded in police custody till Wednesday.

In another incident in Wanowrie, the Social Security Cell of the police rescued a girl from a brothel and arrested a person called Ashok Karamchand Jain (44), a resident of Kedari Nagar, for forcing the girl into prostitution.

Jain had brought the girl from Kolkata and the police were now investigating how many girls he had brought from that city. Jain was remanded in police custody till Wednesday.