Tollywood actresses in sex bust

by Mixo

HYDERABAD: Police commissioner A K Khan appears to be on a mission to weed out amorality in Tollywood. Barely days after busting a drug racket allegedly involving stars and starlets, the Task Force netted two actresses — Saira Banu and Jyothi Lakshmi — along with an Uzbek girl and 6 others in a call girl racket from the city’s upmarket Begumpet area.

But all the accused except the two actresses were booked under the Prevention of Immoral Traffic Act and taken to Punjagutta police station and produced before the magistrate around 4.30 pm. While the actresses were released on personal bail and recommended for counselling, the remaining six were remanded to judicial custody till Sept. 3. The ninth accused, Janardhan alias Johny, is absconding.

The arrests were effected in the fourth floor flat of Spring Heaven Apartments in Begumpet’s Umanagar late on Sunday night. A film dubbing assistant was the main organiser of the racket, police said. The prostitution racket surfaced exactly four days after a Task Force team arrested actor Ravi Teja’s brothers – Bharat and Raghu, their friend D Naresh – and a Nigerian drug peddler Chima Clement for possession of cocaine.