The Mumbai Police's crime branch has busted a sex racket and rescued three women from a hotel in Powai, a senior police officer said on Monday. Notably, the racket was being operated through a mobile phone number that was published in newspapers and also posted on social media. Acting on a tip-off, sleuths of unit 7 of the crime branch kept tabs on the specific phone number and got one of them to act as a dummy customer to expose the racket, a police officer said.

"The agent concerned used to send photos of a few women to the dummy," he added.