For the first time, the city police have arrested a woman for using the Internet to sell sexual services. The woman was picked up from a guest house in Jadavpur on Monday evening after an officer posed as a client. The sleuths also rounded up the guest house owner, a retired state government employee.
“This is the first time we have arrested a woman for soliciting clients on a website. We booked her under the Information and Technology Act,” said Rajeev Mishra, deputy commissioner of police (special), detective department.
Police came to know about the woman — a housewife from Thakurpukur — while investigating Net prostitution in the city. Metro had reported last week that police were planning to crack down on about 50 agencies that have listed names of men and women from the city as “escorts”.
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