UDAYAPUR, Dec 18: Police have arrested three people including a hotelier for their alleged involvement in flesh trade at the district headquarters Gaighat on Monday.
Acting on a tip-off, plainclothes police caught hotelier Sanu Shrestha along with two girls red-handed from a Gaighat-based hotel, SP Nawaraj Bhatta, chief of Udayapur District Police Office, told Republica Online.
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"Hotelier Shrestha has been running flesh trade," SP Bhatta quoted the arrested girls as saying.
According to a preliminary statement provided by the alleged sex workers, Shrestha charges a customer Rs 500 for a one-time service.
Police have launched a crackdown based on the report that flesh trade is thriving in the area of late, said Bhatta.
