39 bar girls, 14 pimps arrested in Mumbai

Mumbai, Apr 1 (UNI) The Social Service Branch (SSB) of the city police has arrested 39 bar girls and 14 pimps from a bar at Reay Road in south central Mumbai.

The SSB received information that bar girls were being supplied to customers from Sheetal Bar and Restaurant at Darukhana on Reay Road, Police Inspector R B Mane said here today.

At around 2120 hrs yesterday, the SSB sleuths conducted a raid at the Bar and nabbed 39 bar girls and 14 pimps along with the bar manager and waiters, Mr Mane said.

All the arrested have been booked under the Prevention of Immoral Trafficking Act (PITA) and will be produced before the metropolitan magistrate court in the later part of the day, he added.

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