SRINAGAR: After Baghi Mehtab Prostitution racket, another Prostitution Racket Busted in Nowgam area of Srinagar district on Tuesday.

In a tweet, the Srinagar police wrote, "Investigation in chanpura case led to busting of another prostitution racket in Nowgam area. 1) Shabir Mir of charlipora nowgam, 2) his wife Shazia Mir & 3) Adil Gulzar Hazar of Soura arrested on spot for operating this racket. 2 customers & a sex worker also detained(all locals),".(GNS)

SRINAGAR: In wake of the busting of a prostitution racket, the District Magistrate Srinagar, on Tuesday appointed a Special Police Officer for dealing with an offence under the immoral Traffic Prevention Act 1956 within the territorial jurisdiction of the District.
On Monday, J&K police claimed to have busted a prostitution racket in the Bagh-e-Mehtab locality of Srinagar and arrested two persons from Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir, who were allegedly involved in running the illegal trade. Six people including four female sex workers were also detained for questioning.
District Magistrate Srinagar, Mohammad Aijaz Asad today issued an order for the appointment of Special Police Officer for dealing with offence under the Immoral Traffic Prevention Act.
"Whereas, Senior Superintendent of Police, Srinagar vide his letter No. CRB/RDR/11595 dated: 03-4-2023 has requested for the appointment of a Special Police Officer not below the rank of an Inspector of Police for dealing with offences under the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956,” the order read.
And accordingly, the DM appointed Inspector Gulshan Akhtar of District Police Lines Srinagar as Special Police Officer under section 13(2) of the Immoral Traffic Prevention Act 1956 for dealing with offences within the territorial jurisdiction of the District.
The officer is now empowered under the Act to investigate and carry criminal proceedings in all such matters,” the order read.
Earlier in the day J&K police arrested the owner of the house which was used for immoral activities. (UNI)

SRINAGAR: Police on Tuesday said that the house owner where Prostitution Racket was busted has been booked under the Immoral Trafficking Prevention Act.

In a tweet, Srinagar police wrote, "Owner of the house used for immoral activities namely: Altaf Hussain Afaki S/o Asadullah Afaki R/o chanapora arrested under section 3 of Immoral Trafficking prevention act 1956(ITPA). Proceedings started for formal attachment/sealing of house as per section 18 of ITPA,"

It's pertinent to mention that A prostitution racket in a rented accommodation at Bagh-e-Mehtab was busted yesterday. 

Police had said that two persons running this racket were arrested: Irshad Ahmad Bhat of Pampore and Mohd Shafi Hajam of Karimabad Pulwama. Four female sex workers (all locals of Srinagar) & 2 customers were detained. FIR registered at chanpura PS.(GNS)

SRINAGAR: Police have booked the house owner, whose house was being used as a ‘prostitution centre’ in the Bagh-e-Mehtab locality of Srinagar outskirts.
   Locals have demanded strict action against the house owner for renting his vacant house to tainted tenants without any police verification.
  As reported earlier, police arrested 8 persons, including 4 female sex workers from Srinagar, 2 kingpins from Pulwama, and two customers also from Srinagar during a raid in the Bagh-e-Mehtab area.
   Police said that the rented house was being used as a prostitution centre.
   The house owner has been identified as Altaf Hussain Afaqi son of late Asadullah Afaqi, a resident of Zalosa village of Charar-e-Sharif Budgam, who presently lives at Chanapora.
   As per the police, the whole racket was run from Afaqi’s rented house.
   “How can he rent his house to people whom he doesn’t know and that too without any police verification? The house owner must be taken to task and booked under relevant sections of law as he brought disrepute to the whole Bagh-e-Mehtab locality,” an elderly man from the area told news agency Kashmir News Trust.
   Another man from the local Masjid Committee while appreciating the role of police said that locals were shocked after the news broke. “It’s a colony and nobody knows anybody. We demand strict action against the house owner first and then against others,” he said.
   Sources said that the house owner is a retired government employee who is a native of Budgam district and owns 3 houses, each one at Zalosa Charar-e-Sharif, Chanapora and Bagh-e-Mehtab. His late father had been a prolific writer known for his works on Sheikh-ul-Aalam (RA) while his brother runs a popular school in Budgam district.
   Police sources said that Altaf Hussain Afaqi has been booked for not bothering to verify the background of tenants through police as prescribed by the law.
   For the unversed, two kingpins, Irhad Bhat son of Shaban Bhat, a resident of Kadlabal Pampore Pulwama and Shafi Hajam son of Qayoom Hajam from Karimabad Pulwama have already been booked by police while a formal FIR vide number 19/2023 under section 3,4,8 of Immortal trafficking act stands registered at police station Chanapora. [KNT]