Team Herald
PANJIM: Sanguem Police Inspector Nilesh Rane and Constable Vinod Naik, both of who had been named by a rescued victim of prostitution of having links with a pimp, were transferred to the Goa Reserve Police on Monday.
PI Uttam Raut Desai, in charge of Margao’s CID Special Branch has been given additional charge of Sanguem police station.
On April 26, Anjuna Police had busted a prostitution racket and rescued two girls from West Bengal. One of them had later exposed the nexus between the two policemen and the pimps who ran the sex racket. Herald was the first to break the story of this nexus in its edition dated April 28. Following the report, the Director General of Police had asked for a preliminary inquiry through CID Special Branch. Their report directly indicted PI Rane and constable Naik based on the statement of the witnesses.
