Acting on a tip-off about the prostitution activities, the police team swooped down on Hotel Laxmi Palace - a lodging and boarding facility located in the Mahajanwadi area of Kashimira and apprehended the racketeers while accepting money for the rendezvous.
While the lodge staffers including the owner, manager, cashier, waiters and a female pimp who brokered the flesh trade deal were booked under section 370 of the Indian Penal Code and relevant sections of the stringent Prevention of Immoral Trafficking Act (PITA), one woman was rescued from the clutches of the flesh trade racketeers.
Further investigations were underway.