Panaji, Goa: A popular model from Panaji, who is a regular at parties and Page 3 events in the coastal state, as well as rave parties in North Goa, was arrested by the Delhi Police recently after she was trapped and caught red-handed in an inter-state sex racket.
According to police sources, the model was co-ordinating with some other wannabe models allegedly from South Goa, trying to fix up meetings with prospective customers from Jaipur. She was part of a racket that used online booking and an escorts website, where prospective clients could book services and make payment online, using credit cards, reported Indyatv.in.
The Special Branch was tracking and monitoring the bookings and payments made through the website for almost a month, but were unable to pin-point the real kingpins. Finally, as their luck would have it, the model mentioned her mobile number in one of the chat conversations via the website chat app.
They tracked the mobile number and using technical inputs and technological surveillance were able to identify the model’s location to a hotel in Delhi.
The cops raided the place and put her under arrest. Upon interrogation, the model revealed that she hailed from Goa and was working with an inter-state gang to make a quick buck. She has acted in episodic roles in CID, Crime Patrol and other such TV serials and was living in Mumbai till February 2020. She shifted to Delhi in September this year.
The model and another associate who also doubled up has her driver have been arrested under the relevant sections of PITA (Prevention of Immoral Trafficking Act) and was remanded by a local court to 4 days police custody. As per the Supreme Court guidelines, the name and identity of the model has been withheld.