Rohtak: During a raid, Rohtak police in Haryana took in custody four persons including three females each hailing from West Bengal, Chhattisgarh and Assam believed to have been lured into the flesh trade for money and better opportunities. In view of many cases reported sex trafficking  in hotels in the past some time, police have launched a manhunt to nab the hotel owner allegedly involved in illegal flesh trade in the town. Acting on a tip-off a sex trafficking racket operating in a hotel police conducted a late-night raid at the hotel in Rohtak on Wednesday late night and busted a racket operating in a hotel near Rohtak main bus stand. Police authorities detained three young women and three men found in compromising conditions in hotel rooms along with hotel staff members believed to be complicit in the operation. However, two hotel owners  whose names have not yet been officially disclosed, escaped just as the raid began, using a rear exit. Police have launched a manhunt and assured that he will be arrested and questioned soon managed to flee the scene through the back door moments before the raid. However, police arrested seven persons of the hotel involved in this illegal business.

DSP Gulab Singh, who led the operation revealed that the police had been receiving consistent intelligence about illegal activities being carried out at the hotel. He said, acting on an input, police raided the hotel and found three women and three men engaged in immoral acts. None of them had valid identity documents when asked for verification by the police. The detained women are allegedly from West Bengal and Assam and are believed to have been lured into the flesh trade with promises of money and better opportunities. The officer added that the victims were from economically weak backgrounds and were being exploited under the guise of permanent employment. DSP said, this investigation will not stop at one hotel. We will be inspecting more hotel establishments across the city, if anyone found involved in immoral trafficking or running such rackets will face strict action, he added that so far police has rescued nine girls from hotels being exploited.