Bengaluru: The Puttenahalli police busted a prostitution gang and arrested its five members, including two women, who had forced a minor orphan girl into prostitution after sexually abusing her.
The police identified the accused as Asha, Jessica, Veeresh, Bharath, and Murali. The police are now on the lookout for the victim's uncle Sagai Raj and aunt Asha with whom the victim was living.
The victim's parents died in 2010 and she was living with her uncle and aunt at their house. Initially everything was fine but later, Sagai Raj and Asha saw the victim as a burden.
Recently, Sagairaj sent the victim to Asha, who runs a prostitution racket. The victim who was at Asha's house was repeatedly sexually abused by Asha's husband Veeresh before she was sold to their contact Jessica, who is also into flesh trade.
Jessica, the police said, would get many clients for the victim every day and subject her to torture if she denied or complained of pain. The ordeal ended when the victim managed to escape from the brothel and went to her relative's house in Villupuram in Tamil Nadu and narrated the incident. The relatives along with the victim approached Villupuram police and filed a complaint which was transferred to Puttenahalli police station under whose jurisdiction the incident took place. Based on the complaint, the police arrested the accused and booked them under various sections of the Juvenile Justice and POCSO Acts, while launching a manhunt for the victim's uncle and aunt.
