With the arrest of a 62-year old man, the police on Thursday claimed to have busted a high-profile sex racket being run in south Delhi’s upscale Safdarjung Enclave area.
With the arrest of a 62-year old man, the police on Thursday claimed to have busted a high-profile sex racket being run in south Delhi’s upscale Safdarjung Enclave area.
Initial investigation suggests that the arrested accused, Pritindra Nath Sanyal, used to provide foreign girls to his high-profile clients on the pretext of having an import-export business.
Sanyal was arrested after the income-tax department found a foreigner forcibly detained at his residence. The income-tax authorities had forwarded a report on details of illegal and criminal activities that Sanyal was involved in to the police.
The sex racket came to light when the income-tax department raided Sanyal’s house on June 2 and found a 23-year-old foreigner in the house, who said she wanted to leave and slashed her wrists in an attempted suicide in front of the income-tax officers.
The income-tax authorities carried out a search and seizure operation in June 2 at Sanyal’s residences in Safdarjung Enclave, Vasant Kunj and Lucknow simultaneously. The woman was found in his Safdarjung Enclave house.
In her statement to the income-tax officers, the woman said she was feeling very insecure and wished to leave the house immediately. After her attempted suicide, the foreigner was taken to a hospital for treatment by the income-tax authorities. She had come to India on a tourist visa on February 25 and had visited Jaipur, Sariska and Delhi.
She told the police that she was introduced to Sanyal by Col. Ajay Ahlawat whose involvement in the case is being investigated. Ahlawat was previously involved in many cheating cases.
During the raids, incriminating documents indicating Sanyal’s involvement in illegal activities like human trafficking and impersonation came to light. Documentary evidence in the form of WhatsApp messages and text messages were also seized from his residence.
The evidence, in the form of SMS and WhatsApp data from the mobile phone of the woman, showed the foreign national was being kept in his residence by the accused against her will. Her travel documents, including her passport, were forcibly kept by Sanyal in his custody.
“During the search, copies of passports of other foreign women and phone numbers of dozens of foreign women belonging to Central Asian countries were recovered from the residence of the accused,” said the police. Messages exchanged between Sanyal and his associates revealed financial transactions related to foreign women.
Sanyal, a resident of Uttar Pradesh, had moved to Delhi 25 years ago and had bought three properties after coming to Delhi.
Sanyal, according to the police, seems to be a fraudster as he used to send mobile messages to several persons posing as a member of Parliament.
