Flesh trade racket: 35 including 8 Thai women held from spas get 14-day jail

All 35 men and women, including eight Thai nationals, arrested for alleged flesh trade during raids at multiple spas in Noida were sent to jail by a court on Monday, officials said.

The accused 25 women and 10 men were produced at the District and Sessions Court in Surajpur, Greater Noida, which remanded them in judicial custody, a police official said.

The accused were held after simultaneous raids on spa centres in Noida's Sector 18 under "Operation Clean" of Noida Police on Sunday night.

"All 35 of them were produced at the court in Surajpur and they have been remanded in judicial custody for 14 days," Circle Officer, Greater Noida 3rd, Rajeev Kumar told PTI.

A case under various sections of the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956 has been registered against the accused, said Kumar, the case investigating officer.

"Eight of the women arrested are from Thailand, while five are from Delhi, four from Uttar Pradesh, three from Manipur and one each from Rajasthan, Nagaland, ...