Hyderabad online sex racket busted, girls were paid Rs 50,000 a week

Hyderabad: Rachakonda SOT police nabbed four people, including a woman, who were running an online sex racket and rescued five victims. The gang operated through www.locanto.in.

The victims were selected by the organiser after they sent their pictures on WhatsApp and they travelled to Hyderabad by air. Cops also seized Rs 32,000 and 11 mobiles from them. The arrested persons are Dasari Prabhakar, Nagesh Varma, Ravi Varma and Prachi Sharma. The rescued women are from Haryana and UP.

The SOT found the contact number of Prabhakar and contacted him. In a decoy operation, a constable struck a deal with him and a girl was sent to the spot at Ramanthapur. Police found that the racket was operated by one Ranjith, who is absconding.

Ranjith is in the online sex racket since a year and used to hire girls from Delhi on five-day payment basis. They would be paid Rs 50,000 a week. Each girl would be available for only five days. After that they go back. They shared Ranjith’s contact details with their friends. The girls came to know about Ranjith through their friends who worked for him before.

“Interested girls send their pictures to Ranjith on WhatsApp and Ranjith will call selected girls. They travel by air and will be accommodated in posh hotels. Later their pictures are uploaded on the site,” SOT chief E. Ramchandra Reddy said. Any client who calls Bhaskar will be directed to Ranjith and Ravi. Police found that Prachi Sharma was also involved in the racket. Prachi belongs to Delhi and operates with the help of Javed. “They charge up to Rs 60,000 from customers depending on duration and after deducting 50 per cent they pay the victims,” he added. The organisers were arrested and the victims were sent to rescue home.