SRINAGAR, July 15: Four policemen are among five people arrested for allegedly running a sex trade in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said Sunday.
Police have busted a flesh trade racket in the state’s remore Rajouri Distrcit with the arrest of four policemen, including three Special Police Officers (SPO’s).
A girl, who was rescued from a house in the area where the racket was being run, told police that she was forced into sex racket allegedly by the SPOs on the pretext of providing her a job, Superintendent of Police, Rajouri Mubassir Latifee told reporters there.
“Following the complaint, we constituted a special team and arrested the three SPO, a Constable Mohmmad Haneef, whose house was allegedly used for the flesh trade, The constable’s wife has also been arrested.
The SPOs have been dismissed from services and action will be taken against the constable, Latifee said.
A sex scandal in 2006 triggered widespread violence across the Kashmir valley.
The scandal, in which girls, some of them minors, were said to be supplied to politicians, bureaucrats, police officials, sparked weeks of violent protests across the Himalayan region in 2006 after it was uncovered.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the country’s federal police probing the sex scandal, arrested two former state ministers and lawmakers but later freed them on bail.
