Police sting ends career of prostitution kingpin
29 May 2008, 0553 hrs IST,TNN
CHENNAI: The anti-vice squad (AVS), a wing of the city police, has arrested Mohan alias Mohan Reddy (43), the kingpin of a prostitution racket operating out of Valasaravakkam and Virugambakkam in the city. Reddy, whose illegal network stretched across the four southern states, was caught in a sting operation at Koyambedu when he supplied a woman to a police decoy. According to sources, Reddy, a film distributor, engaged thousands of woman — some of them film actresses and junior artists — and ran brothels in Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. The AVS team also rescued two AP woman and seized an Indica car (TN 01 V 1643), a Bajaj motorbike (TN 10 M 4210) and a few high-end mobile phones from Reddy. "He had been supplying actresses and young women to VIPs for over five years. There are many prostitution cases pending against him, including two with the AVS. He was absconding for some time and we caught him using a decoy on Tuesday," AVS inspector Udhayakumar told TOI. Udhayakumar said Reddy even used his own house on Ist Main Road in Alwar Tiru Nagar as a brothel. Reddy charged between Rs 5,000 and a few lakh rupees for the woman he supplied, sources said. "He mostly brought woman from Andhra Pradesh. He has distributed films and has close connections with both Tollywood and Kollywood. We have information regarding his connection with many actresses," the AVS inspector said. After the arrest of the pimp Kannada Prasad in Feb, 2007, Mohan Reddy was the second big target of the AVS. "Reddy is also a high-end pimp, who used all sorts of methods to lure woman into prostitution. Both men had good connection with the film world and supplied actresses to preferred customers. Both were able to supply woman in any southern state by just making a few phone calls," another police official said. The police is now tracking Reddy's network of brothels. The pimp was produced before a magistrate and remanded in judicial custody
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