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A sex racket operating out of a spa salon at Paltanbazar area in Guwahati was busted on Thursday.  Acting on a tip-off, the Crime Branch of Assam police conducted a raid at Infinity Spa Unisex Salon near KFC at Guwahati’s Paltan Bazar area.

The police arrested the owner of the spa salon, Ashu Singh along with 10 girls and 3 youths in this connection. Police also seized some objectionable items, mobile phones and documents. As per reports, the Crime Branch sleuths pretended to be customers during the raid.

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An FIR under sections 3 (keeping a brothel or allowing premises to be used as a brothel), 4 (living on the earnings of prostitution), 5 (procuring, inducing or taking a person for the sake of prostitution), 7 (prostitution in or in the vicinity of public places), 8 (seducing or soliciting for purpose of prostitution) and 9 (seduction of a person in custody) of the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act was registered at Paltanbazar police station.

Ashu Singh is a resident of Manipuri Basti in Guwahati. The spa saloons have currently mushroomed in the city.

On March 13, 2018, the Digboi Police arrested a 35-year-old woman in Digboi for her alleged involvement in running a sex racket.

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