While the action was taken across the city, including the Ganga Jamuna red-light area, the police also sealed rooms in hotels and a large number of private properties across Nagpur. Two more premises are in the final stages of legal formalities for sealing. Year-wise progress shows a clear escalation in enforcement. In 2024, only three rooms were sealed. In 2025, sealing was approved for 20 premises, though three owners managed to obtain court stay. This year, authorities have already sealed three places. “Sealing is the ultimate deterrence and we will continue this approach without let-up,” CP Ravinder Singal said.To prevent further misuse of properties, the police released and widely circulated video messages on social media warning landlords, house owners, and brokers against renting premises to racketeers involved in the sex trade.In the past 90 days, simultaneous raids by the crime branch and local police station teams rescued more than 75 women and around five minors. All rescued persons received immediate medical examinations, counselling, and safe shelter in govt-run homes pending further court orders.Through ‘Operation Shakti’, Nagpur police aims to dismantle prostitution rackets, protect vulnerable individuals pulled into the trade, and hold property owners and middlemen accountable by using stringent legal measures. The operation also led to the arrests of several landlords and hotel owners after raids on sex rackets on their premises.“We are preparing awareness campaign posters and are also educating the masses, landlords, and hotel owners against making their premises available for any form of trafficking and prostitution,” said another senior official.
