Kendrapada: Police on Wednesday night raided a rented house in Jajpur district and arrested three persons allegedly involved in the act of committing indecent sexual acts. A police team, led by IIC Ashis Kumar Sahoo, conducted the raid and arrested two customers and a middleman while they were allegedly engaged in indecent sexual acts.“Police rescued three sex workers, including a girl from West Bengal, from the house. All of them have been sent to a govt-run women short-stay home at Jajpur Road. The raid revealed that flesh trade was being organised in this house for a long time. Police also seized liquor bottles, packets of condoms and contraceptive pills from the house,” said Sahoo.The three arrested persons were booked under sections 3, 4, 5 and 7 of the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act and section 52(A) of the Odisha Excise Act. They were produced before the court of the sub-divisional judicial magistrate, Jajpur Road, on Thursday. The court rejected their bail applications and remanded them to jail custody, Sahoo added.


