19 sex girls held from Sahara's hotel
Rapid Action Battalion on Wednesday arrested 19 sex workers and 20 boarders at a residential hotel, owned by Home Minister Sahara Khatun, in the city.
Sources said a team of Rab raided Imperial Guest House in the city's Farmgate area around 1:00pm and arrested 39 people from different rooms of the hotel.Israil, brother of Sahara and manager of the hotel, was also held but he was later released following a phone call of the inspector general of police, reports online news portal Sheershanews.com.
The arrestees were handed over to Tejgaon Police Station.Rab sources said the arrested people are involved in prostitution.Rab officials, however, denied that they had arrested anybody named Israil. A case has been filed with Tejgaon Police Station in this connection
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