MiD DAY’s expose about how innocent college girls and housewives, branded as ‘sex traders’, were confined to a rehab centre after a police raid led by ACP Vasant Dhoble on a Khar pub, has only emboldened cops to continue harassing them, their kin allege. On Thursday, half of the detained girls whose families had spoken to this paper about the “unwarranted” police action had to spend another day in the rehabilitation centre in Deonar Navjeevan Mahila Vastigrah, as the police did not take them to court.

Stuck in rehab: Some of the girls from the Madness pub raid who were produced in Mazgaon court yesterday.