4 girls held in Chhattisgarh for running sex racket

September 11th, 2009 American guilty of statutory rape of Kenyan girlsNAIROBI, Kenya — A magistrate in Kenya has sentenced an American who founded a popular chain of coffee shops to 15 years' imprisonment for the statutory rape of three teenage Kenyan girls. Principal Magistrate Teresia Ngugi says Jon Cardon Wagner paid two women $500 to bring the 13-year-old and two 14-year-olds to his house.

September 8th, 2009 LUCKNOW - The Lucknow police Tuesday arrested a man involved in an illegal money transfer racket and recovered Rs.5.33 lakh from his possession, officials said. The accused, Mirza Ajmal Begh, was arrested from the Thakurganj locality in the afternoon while he was going to hand over the money to a person.

August 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - A 32-year-old man was arrested here for allegedly duping people by promising to arrange kidney donors for them, police said Saturday. Vinod Kumar, a resident of Uttam Nagar, was arrested Friday near Safdurjung Hospital following a tip-off, a police officer said.

July 28th, 2009 RAIPUR - The opposition Congress staged a walkout Tuesday in the Chhattisgarh assembly, accusing the state's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government of doing little to prevent trafficking of thousands of youth, mainly girls, from poor families to metros. The house witnessed a heated debate when the government replied in the assembly it was doing its best to trace out an estimated 7,000 people missing in the state for many years.

July 18th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Five women and a man were arrested here for allegedly running a sex racket targeting high end customers, police said Saturday. "We had got a tip-off about this racket.

July 6th, 2009 LUCKNOW - A man and a woman have been arrested in Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahr district for alleged involvement in a fake currency racket linked to Pakistan, police said Monday. Acting on a tip off by the Intelligence Bureau, the police raided a hideout in Tajpur village and nabbed the two Sunday night with counterfeit currency totalling over Rs.11 lakh (Rs.1.1 million).

June 20th, 2009 BHOPAL - An inter-state prostitution racket was busted in the Madhya Pradesh capital with the arrest of 15 people, including six girls, in the past two days, police here said Saturday. "We have arrested 15 people, including six girls, in the last two days," T.T.

June 11th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Four policemen in Uttar Pradesh's Basti district were suspended Wednesday for allegedly running a sex racket from their official quarters, an official said Wednesday. "An enquiry has also been initiated against the four constables, who were caught with two call girls Tuesday night at the police residential quarters," a district police spokesperson told IANS by phone.

June 5th, 2009 LUCKNOW - The Uttar Pradesh police Friday said they had busted a prostitution racket, arresting four men and rescuing four women from Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh. "Acting on a tip-off, we raided a hideout in the Radhagli area of Firozobad district Thursday night and nabbed the four men," police inspector Krishna Kumar told IANS on phone.

April 14th, 2009 RAIPUR - A case was registered Tuesday against 37 students, including about a dozen girls, of a national law university in Chhattisgarh for rioting and damaging public property, police said Shaukat Ali, the station house officer of Civil Lines police station, told reporters that a first information report (FIR) had been registered against 37 students of the Raipur-based Hidayatullah National Law University including about a dozen girl students under various sections of the IPC dealing with rioting. The students had Monday turned violent as part of their stir against university vice-chancellor, M.K.

April 11th, 2009 RAIPUR - As the time of elections in Chhattisgarh nears, the demand for regional film artists increases. In a bid to woo the voters, the people of Raipur were recently treated with performances by junior and known film artists of Chhattisgarh film industry in an election campaign for the Bharatiya Janata Party candidate, Ramesh Bains.

April 6th, 2009 RAIPUR - Booker winner Arundhati Roy Monday slammed the Chhattisgarh government for the continuous detention of Binayak Sen, a doctor-turned-human rights activist, who has been in jail for the last 22 months for his alleged Maoist links. Sen was arrested May 14, 2007 under the Chhattisgarh Special Public Security Act (CSPSA), which Roy said 'has a vague, diffused definition of 'unlawful activity'.

February 7th, 2009 RAIPUR - The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) will put up candidates for all 11 Lok Sabha seats in Chhattisgarh in the upcoming general elections, the party's state chief said here Sunday. 'The party will contest all 11 Lok Sabha seats on its own,' Dauram Ratnakar, BSP's Chhattisgarh president told IANS.

January 25th, 2009 RAIPUR - Chhattisgarh Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan took the salute at the Republic Day parade held here Monday and praised the commitment of the security forces battling Maoist insurgency in the state.

December 31st, 2008 RAIPUR - The Chhattisgarh government Thursday announced that it has split the state electricity board into five entities - one holding company and four others to manage transmission, distribution, production and trading. The new companies are - Chhattisgarh State Power Transmission Co.