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Delhi Minor Exposes Mother’s Links With Sex Racket in Manali

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Poorvi Gupta
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A 16-year-old girl from Delhi opened up about sex trade run by her mother in Manali to the Police. She told them that her mother sold her off to two pimps for Rs 40,000 per month who then took her to Manali a month back and forced her into prostitution.

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The girl told the cops that the pimps had also taken a few other girls with them about a month back to force them into sex trade. She said that some of the girls could be minors too.

This Saturday, they had allegedly sent her to a client but she managed to escape and went to a private hospital. With the help of a staff member, she called the children helpline number and reported the incident. The operator at the helpline informed the police about the sex racket and filed a complaint against it on Sunday under section 376 (rape) of the IPC and various sections of POCSO and Immoral Trafficking (Prevention) Act.

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"Based on her statement, we have arrested the main accused from Manali, who is a resident of Zirakpur in Punjab. He was produced before the court on Monday and remanded to police custody for three days," Kullu superintendent of police Shalini Agnihotri said, the TOI reported.

The girl told the cops that the pimps had also taken a few other girls with them, about a month back, to force them into sex trade. She said that some of the girls could be minors too. The police recorded her statement on Tuesday under section 164 CrPC.

SP Agnihotri told the media that while the pimps and the other girls have gone missing but they are working to find them out. "There is possibility that this sex racket has its connections in Delhi. Our team is seriously investigating the matter," she added.

Kullu police have uncovered nine sex rackets in the district in the past couple of years. The tourism in Manali is attracting a lot of illegal sex trade in the city. Sources told the TOI that pimps get a lot of girls along with a few foreigner girls to the city during the summer tourist season.

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