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Panaji/Nagpur: Four persons, including a Russian woman, were today arrested in Goa for allegedly running an online prostitution racket, police said.
Four women, who were pushed into prostitution were also rescued, a Goa police spokesperson said. Of these, one woman hailed from Bengaluru, another one from West Bengal and two belonged to Nagpur.
41-year-old Natalia Bhalchandra, a Russian national, 21-year-old Priyanka Sinha, originally from Jharkhand along with two other men – Parshuram Wadar and Swapnesh Naik, were apprehended by the sleuths of the crime branch for allegedly running an online prostitution racket, he said.
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All the four were running the alleged racket through three different websites, the spokesperson added.
Acting on a tip-off, the police sent a decoy and conducted raid at a hotel in Calangute beach area following which the four were nabbed, he said.
A case under relevant sections of the Immoral Trafficking Prevention Act was registered.
