Mumbai: Mumbai police have busted a major prostitution racket operating in the luxury hotels and homes, and arrested six persons in the connection.
The officials claimed that the accused lured customers by offering a "spa at home" service.
The officials further added that the Unit-9 of the Mumbai Crime Branch raided a five-star hotel in suburban Andheri Monday and rescued three women who had been forced into prostitution.
The police also arrested Rajnish Singh (35), owner of Rajnish Wellness Ltd, a company which was allegedly a front for a prostitution racket, the official added.
Besides Singh, five women, who worked at the company's the office was also arrested.
The racket came to light when police started probing an advertisement in a tabloid which promised to provide "a spa at your home", said inspector Asha Korake of the Crime Branch who conducted the raid.
Rajnish Singh was allegedly running this racket for more than 10 months. After a police officer contacted the mobile number in the advertisement, posing as a customer, three women were sent to a hotel in Andheri, following which the raid was conducted.
Meanwhile, the court has remanded all six accused, arrested under the Immoral Traffic Prevention Act and section 370 of the IPC (trafficking of humans), in police custody till Saturday.
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