Probe under way into cops' alleged link with sex racket in Kozhikode
The police have accessed Call Detail Records (CDR) of more persons as part of the investigation into the discreet network of a recently exposed sex racket in Kozhikode city. A preliminary CDR analysis, which already revealed the alleged links of two civil police officers with the racket, confirms that the racket has been in touch with some influential persons, including government servants, in the city.
'The two policemen, Shaijith and Sanith, who were arraigned in the sex racket case, have been placed under suspension by the District Police Chief [Kozhikode city] pending further investigation. They were drivers with the police control room,' said a police officer associated with the investigation. He said CDR analysis of 12 persons, including six women who were rescued from the spot, was progressing.
Sources also confirmed that the arrest of the two police drivers would be recorded soon. Reports related to the department-level investigation conducted on their role in the case had already been forwarded to the higher authorities, they said.
Apart from CDR evidence, the investigation team also retrieved some bank documents which revealed financial transactions allegedly carried out between the accused policemen and one of the arrested women.
It was on June 6 that the suspected inter-district sex racket was exposed during a flash inspection at an apartment near Malaparamba in Kozhikode. The rented apartment was projected as a facility for accommodating women who offer bystander support to the needy in the nearby hospitals.
According to the Nadakkavu police, nine persons, including two men who came to the spot as 'customers', were nabbed from the spot on June 6. The two policemen and a Non-Resident Keralite identified as M.K. Animesh, who allegedly sublet the building for the alleged illegal business, were arraigned in the case after a three-day-long investigation based on CDR analysis, they said.
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