<p>The Amboli police busted a prostitution racket and arrested a 28-year-old man while also rescuing a 30-year-old woman from a hotel lodge in Andheri West.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.mid-day.com/mumbai/mumbai-crime-news/article/mumbai-police-receive-hoax-email-threatening-to-blow-up-airport-taj-hotel-23546367" rel="nofollow">Police </a>have identified the accused as Mohammed Gulab Fulbabu Shaikh, alias Sarfaraz, a resident of Versova and a native of Bihar.</p>
<p>Police said that to nab the accused, they sent a decoy customer and trapped him. Sarfaraz had been operating the prostitution racket in Versova for the past year, targeting young women and aspiring models.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.mid-day.com/mumbai/mumbai-crime-news/article/mumbai-shivaji-nagar-senior-inspector-held-while-accepting-rs-1-lakh-bribe-23542336" rel="nofollow">Police Inspector</a> Vasant Devkate of Amboli police station received a tip-off, and to arrest the accused, he formed a team and arranged for a man to pose as a bogus customer. On May 16 at around 8 pm, the decoy contacted the accused. Sarfaraz sent multiple photos of several young women and quoted a rate of R5000,&nbsp;<br />said police.</p>
<p>A police officer said, &ldquo;Sarfaraz shared the location and met the decoy customer in Andheri West, where he accepted R5000. He then escorted him to a room at a lodge in Andheri West where a 30-year-old woman was found.&rdquo;</p>
<p>The police raided the lodge, arrested Sarfaraz from there, and rescued the victim.</p>
<p>&ldquo;We arrested Sarfaraz, who had been running the prostitution racket for the past year. Our team trapped him using a decoy customer and also rescued the woman,&rdquo; PI Devkate said.</p>
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Amboli police arrest 28-year-old Sarfaraz in Andheri West for running a prostitution racket; a 30-year-old woman was rescued from a lodge.

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Police have identified the accused as Mohammed Gulab Fulbabu Shaikh, alias Sarfaraz, a resident of Versova and a native of Bihar. Amboli police busted a prostitution racket and arrested a 28-year-old man while also rescuing a 30-year-old woman from a hotel lodge in Andheri West.

Andheri: 28-year-old man held for running prostitution racket

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