In a planned and coordinated exercise, Dimapur police comprising of senior officers and a forty-member team conducted raids in suspected hotels operating as brothels centres in New Market area of Dimapur town Monday and arrested six persons. According to PRO Dimapur Police, altogether 17 female victims were also rescued and later handed over to different agency for rehabilitation as per the legal procedure.
Police said the modus operandi involved forced confinement in hotels where females were locked inside multiple rooms during “business hours”. It was also revealed that the victims would be further subjected to extortion from their daily earnings by a network of pimps and hotel managers. It was also found that temporary living condition of the victims were abjectly poor, police said.
PRO said the exercise was a part of Dimapur police initiative in combating human trafficking for sexual exploitation. Police said show cause notices were being served to the owners of the hotel buildings. In addition, PRO said correspondences were being processed to the Dimapur Municipal Council for cancellation of trade licences.
The six arrested were identified as Amit Prasad (18), P/Add- Jharnapane (ECI Highway Construction Camp); Md.Almas Ali (19) P/Add- Jharnapane (ECI Highway Construction Camp); Medozhosa (33) present address Tenyiphe– I, Dimapur; Hojrat Ali (22) P/Add Zeliangrong colony; Ajay Chandra (38) P/Add Pherima village (C/o Star Rice Hotel) Medziphema, Dimapur and Saidul Islam (27) of Daupura, Nagaon.