Inter-state sex racket busted; three arrested

1 min readPanajiMar 20, 2026 04:18 AM IST

The Goa Police’s Crime Branch has arrested three persons for allegedly operating an inter-state prostitution racket as well as multiple websites offering escort services.

During a raid following an FIR registered against 22 websites engaged in “dissemination and publication of sexually explicit and objectionable content”, three accused — identified as M V Narayan Rao (40) AND Manjunath Shahshetty (36) from Karnataka, and Shahbaz Khan (33) from Bhopal — were arrested from Goa’s Nerul earlier this week and remanded to police custody for three days. Police said they have also seized a cellphone, the number of which was mentioned on the websites of the escort services, from the possession of the accused.