 Women police personnel and special police officers (SPOs) in Jammu and Kashmir are intangibly involved in the sex scandal that has rocked the state for the last month, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has found.
| "Intangibly" involved? That means you can't quantify it? |
The racket, protests against which have led to strikes and rioting, extends well beyond Srinagar and into other towns of the valley, the CBI says. "We have found that several women police constables and SPOs were controlling and running the racket in Srinagar," a senior officer handling the investigation told IANS.
| Copperettes running hookers? That's never happened before, has it? |
Though several cases were registered against the main accused Sabina — who was running the business in the city forcing young girls into prostitution — no action was taken because of the influence of senior state police officers and also because it was being run by their own people. Well-informed sources said the three-week investigations revealed that over 10 similar sex rackets were active in Srinagar and places around the city.
| Sounds like a regular den of iniquity. |
"We have found that one such racket is active in the Gulmarg area," an officer told IANS. He added that it was so deeply embedded in the Kashmir administration that the case would not have been solved had it not been handed over to an outside agency. "We have the names of 45 women who were being forced into prostitution and we have concrete evidence to prove that there are many more women and young girls involved," he said. The sex scandal first came to light when a 15-year-old victim registered a case against the prime accused, Sabina, in early May. The girl named over 56 people, including some high profile personalities, in her complaint.
| I think they're all oversexed, myself. But if I was only a decade or two younger, I'd probably book a tour to make sure. |
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