Two held in Chennai for forcing four Kenyan women into prostitution

Chennai, May 30 (BPNS)

The Greater Chennai police arrested two people for detaining four foreign women for prostitution in a private lodge in the city.

The arrested are M. Kannan(31) of Salem and P. Saravanaraj( 43) of Alandur.

Police found an African woman loitering on the streets and inquired with her only to find that she was kicked out from a lodge in C.V. Raman road in Chennai.

When police reached the lodge and enquired about the Kenyan woman, they feigned ignorance. On suspicion police took the manager and his assistant into custody and on questioning found that four Kenyan women were lodged for the past one month and supplied for prostitution.

Police found that the four women were brought from their native Kenya to Chennai and were detained and forced into prostitution rackets.  The four women were brought to Chennai on a tourist visa and the visa of one of the women had expired.

Greater Chennai Police have now commenced a crackdown on all the lodges, motels, and homestays to find if more such prostitution rackets were functioning in the city.