Venugopal, CEO of an IT firm and Telegu actress Yamuna arrested over sex racket

BANGALORE: The CCB raid on a five-star hotel, where a South Indian actor was arrested with two men on Thursday night, is part of a prostitution network spread across the country, involving many people from the film and modelling industry.

However, even the top police brass are tight-lipped about Thursday night's raid and said they had to collect more evidence about the racket, before making it public.

Early on Friday, police produced the three before the magistrate at his residence. While the actor, whose Kannada movie was released on Friday, and Venugopal, CEO of a software firm, were remanded to judicial custody and sent to Parappana Agrahara, police have taken the middleman, Surakshit Suman, into custody.

Joint commissioner of police (crime) Alok Kumar said they had taken Suman into custody for further investigation.

BIDARI KNEW OF NATIONAL RACKET

However, police commissioner Shankar Bidari, neither confirming the raid, nor denying it, said: "Three months ago, I received information about a hi-tech prostitution racket in the city. I had directed Alok Kumar to look into the issue. The CCB might have conducted the raid, but haven't given complete details,'' he said.

"When we say it is a national network, we need to get all the people involved in it and produce evidence against the accused. Besides, most of the transactions are made using internet and we need to gather evidence from the net also. This takes time and once we get to the bottom of the racket, we can come out with proper details. We need some time for the investigation,'' he added.