32-year-old in police custody for pushing minor daughter into prostitution in Pune

PUNE: A 32-year-old woman was among five people remanded to police custody on Thursday for pushing her minor daughter into prostitution in Pimpri

PUNE: A 32-year-old woman was among five people remanded to police custody on Thursday for pushing her minor daughter into prostitution in Pimpri.

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Along with the woman, the four others arrested in the case include Ajay Narayan Mane (22), Omkar Balasaheb Kadam (22), Rakesh Ramjilal Choudary alias Saharan (32) and Mangiram Suratsingh Bugaliya (32), according to the police.

“Two of them are customers and two are drug users. We had received information about this, and raided the place. The girl and one other woman rescued from the place are now at the rescue center in Mohammadwadi,” said inspector S Naikwade of Pimpri police station who is investigating the case.

The group was found in Shreyas Heights society in Masulkar colony area of Pimpri, according to the police. The police raided the place around 2:55pm on Tuesday and a case was registered in the small hours of Wednesday.

A case under Sections 8(c), 20(b)(ii)(a), and 29 of NDPS, Sections 3, 4, 5 of PITA, Section 370(a) of Indian Penal Code along with Section 11, 12, 17 of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) and Section 65(e) of Information Technology Act was registered at Pimpri police station.