A 62-year old man was arrested by the Delhi police on July 21, Thursday in a high-profile sex racket run that was busted in south Delhi’s upscale Safdarjung Enclave area, the police said. Investigation reveal that the arrested accused, Pritindra Nath Sanyal, used to offer foreign girls to his high-profile clients on the pretext of having an import-export business. Sanyal was arrested after the income-tax department found a foreigner forcibly detained at his residence. The income-tax authorities had forwarded a report on details of illegal and criminal activities that Sanyal was involved to the police. While raiding Sanyal’s house the IT department came to know about the sex racket on June 2 and found a 23-year-old foreigner in the house, who said she wanted to leave and slashed her wrists in an attempted suicide in front of the income-tax officers. The income-tax authorities carried out a search and seizure operation in June 2 at Sanyal’s residences in Safdarjung Enclave, Vasant Kunj and Lucknow simultaneously. The woman was found in his Safdarjung Enclave house. According to police, the woman said she was feeling very insecure and wanted to leave the house immediately, she said to IT officials. After her attempted suicide, the foreigner was taken to a hospital for treatment by the income-tax authorities. She had come to India on a tourist visa on February 25 and had visited Jaipur, Sariska and Delhi. She told the police that she was introduced to Sanyal by Col. Ajay Ahlawat whose involvement in the case is being investigated. Ahlawat was previously involved in many cheating cases. During the raids, incriminating documents indicating Sanyal’s involvement in illegal activities like human trafficking and impersonation came to light. Documentary evidence in the form of WhatsApp messages and text messages were also seized from his residence, the police said.
