Six women, two men held for flesh trade in Gurugram

Gurugram, Jan 9 (IANS) Six women and two men were arrested on Monday on charges of running a sex racket from a spa here, police said.

The accused women include three from Nepal.

The accused were booked under the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act and sent to judicial custody for 14 days by a district court, Sector 5 police station incharge Vivek Kundu told IANS.

He said a woman from Nepal was operating the sex racket for the past few months from the spa situated near Bhagat Singh Chowk.

Police said similar sex rackets had been busted earlier also. On December 10 last year, six women -- including one from Thailand and another from Kenya -- and a man were arrested on charge of involvement in flesh trade.