A middle-aged woman has been arrested for allegedly buying a 17-year-old girl for 1 lakh rupees and pushing her into prostitution, police said today.
According to the police, Noori (35), a resident of Bangalore, was arrested yesterday evening from G B Road area, the red light in Central Delhi.
"Noori herself was a prostitute for years and around eight years ago, she started running a prostitution racket in G B Road. She bought teenaged girls like the one who has been rescued and pushed them in prostitution," said a police official.
Noori's name was revealed by the minor girl who was rescued by police from a brothel along with three women on Friday, he said.
After being rescued, the girl told the police that she was bought by Noori in Rs 1 lakh from a person who brought her to Delhi on the pretext of providing a job. The other women were also brought using similar ploys, police said.
The minor came from Solapur (Maharashtra) around 15 days ago. Two of the women were brought from Andhra Pradesh around one-and-half year ago while one was brought from West Bengal approximately a year ago, police said.
Police are looking for the man who brought the girl and another woman and sold them to Noori, the official added.
