Eleven remanded on charges of prostitution

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Eleven suspects including nine women from remote areas of the country were arrested and produced in Court by the police, on charges of having run a brothel under the guise of a massage parlour at Galle road, Kollupitiya.

Accordingly, the eleven suspects were ordered be remanded till March 14 by the Colombo Fort Magistrate today.

Filing a report in Court, the Kollupitiya police informed that the women who come from Moneragala, Lunugala, Badulla, Anuradhapura and Baduraliya areas were among those arrested.

Meanwhile, two men who were alleged to have managed the brothel were also arrested on charges of procuring women for prostitution. Police submitted in Court that they carried out a raid after asserting that a brothel was being operated under the guise of a massage clinic at Galle road in Kollupitiya. The nine female suspects were arrested on charges of having aided and abetted the illegitimate operation.

According to the police, a police officer who posed off as a customer had been made to pay Rs.4000 in order to set a woman.
Meanwhile, the Colombo Fort Magistrate Kanishka Wijeratne ordered the prison authorities to produce the nine women before a venereal diseases clinic and ordered the eleven suspects to be remanded till March 13. (Lakmal Sooriyagoda)

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lankabay Tuesday, 13 March 2012 11:02 AM

Is it not the same magistrate who let go of a chinese prostitute after paying just Rs. 10 as punishment.

Kalutaraboy Tuesday, 13 March 2012 11:34 AM

World’s oldest profession if the customers happy who care they are from village or villa ony they didnt make the police happy

lankaputha Tuesday, 13 March 2012 11:40 AM

Fundamental rights of all to go for a clinic and not something that courts can order. Viloating the rights.
As well, allowing the other to sleep with them at a price is two individuals right.
HR, open your eyes.

Kangaroo 2 Tuesday, 13 March 2012 11:41 AM

Aiyo what hell are you guys going behind poor women cause no harm to anyone .......so foolish ,, but good that you check them for venereal diseases

MM Tuesday, 13 March 2012 12:20 PM

Now a days Kollupitiya area becoming notorious place for brothel cases. why there any other places?

Labby Tuesday, 13 March 2012 12:22 PM

Oh sure, we are a nation of saints.

Kangaroo 2 Tuesday, 13 March 2012 12:37 PM

This issue should be taken up in Geneva

Marikar Tuesday, 13 March 2012 12:45 PM

The NEED for a RED LIGHT AREA!
WHY NOT we have one, like other developed countries?
This is a Human Need, why arrest them? If BOTH parties agree its NOT a WRONG! There only fulfilling there Human Desire!
THIS IS NATURAL!

Minister Tuesday, 13 March 2012 03:06 PM

So the massagers were arrested and remanded. Then what about the masagees?

chaminda Tuesday, 13 March 2012 07:11 PM

These prostitutes have a better self respect than the women NGO activists who have gone to Geneva to betray Sri Lanka.

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