22 February,2024 02:06 PM IST | Navi Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
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A 17-year-old boy from Navi Mumbai has allegedly gone missing after leaving home to appear for his Class 12 board exam, police said on Thursday. The officer from Rabale police station told PTI that the child left his home in Ghansoli around 8.45 am on Wednesday to attend the exam at a Vashi college.
The official further stated that the Navi Mumbai boy did not return home till late that night after which they searched for him and later approached the cops, per the PTI report.
According to the report, the cops have filed a case under Section 363 (kidnapping) of the Indian Penal Code based on the father's complaint. The official told the news agency that they are making necessary efforts to trace the boy.
Meanwhile, in another unrelated case, Navi Mumbai police arrested a woman for allegedly running a flesh trade racket from a spa operated by her in a popular mall in Vashi. According to news agency PTI, the cops took action after they received a tip-off about a sex racket being run from the spa.
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Reportedly, they had sent a decoy customer on Tuesday evening who saw two women, in their 20s, working at the outlet, were being forced into sex work.
Navi Mumbai anti-human trafficking cell's senior police inspector Prithviraj Ghorpade told PTI that they have arrested the woman, aged 40, who was allegedly pushing them into the racket. He also said that the rescued women have been sent to a shelter home.
The cops in Navi Mumbai had busted another sex racket from the Taloja node last week and had rescued a Bangladeshi minor. According to the statement by police to PTI, the cops were tipped off by their informers and they later verified it by employing a dummy customer.
A report from news agency PTI quoted Sub Inspector Suresh Kurhade of the Taloja police station saying that they raided a flat in a residential society of Taloja from where the accused persons had been running their racket and rescued the 14-year-old Bangladeshi girl.
"Two people, Samon Shaikh and Mohinoor Mandal, were arrested, and a 14-year-old girl from Bangladesh was rescued. A case has been filed under the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act," the official told PTI.
With PTI inputs
