Thane, Oct 17 Two minor girls were rescued from a prostitution racket in Thane, following which the mother of one of the victims was arrested along with an associate, a police official said on Saturday.
The official said a bar on Kalyan-Shil road in Daighar village was raided on October 16 on the tip-off received by senior inspector Anjali Andhale of the police’s Anti Human Trafficking Cell (ATHC).
“Information was received that a male broker was bringing two minor girls for flesh trade activities there. The male broker and his female associate were apprehended. The two minor girls were rescued. It was found that the female associate was the biological mother of one of the minor girls,” he said.
A case was registered at Daighar police station against the duo under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, the official informed.
The two girls have been sent to the Government Observation Home for Children in Ulhasnagar, he added.
(PTI News)
