Bhubaneswar, Aug. 12: Police today filed a charge sheet against Sunil Meher, who had been running sex rackets in the city for the past few years. 

The 33-year-old pimp was arrested on April 21 from Calcutta airport after he landed there from Ahmedabad.

Police sources said that the 300-page charge sheet also mentioned the names of nine of his associates who have been helping Meher in the trade. The charge sheet was filed in the court of sub-divisional judicial magistrate.

Meher, a native of Sambalpur, had escaped from the clutches of the police in July last year when a sex racket was busted at IRC Village in Nayapalli police station limits. The cops had also rescued a Mumbai-based small-time model hired by Meher. 

The police said that 12 cases had been registered in various police stations in Bhubaneswar since 2010. “Investigation of all cases registered against him is under way. We hope that charge sheet of remaining cases will be filed in another 10 to 15 days,” said police commissioner Y.B Khurania. 

The cops have found Meher’s link in Chandrasekharpur case on March 23 in which a 30-year-old sex worker from Kyrgyzstan was rescued. They later found Somesh Panda, who had brought the foreign national to Bhubaneswar, had close links with Meher. 

Police investigation had also revealed that Meher had fetched Rs 10 lakh every month by running flesh trade in the city. “We had found his links with sex trade in other places, including Calcutta, Goa and Haryana. Meher used to hire call girls by paying them monthly remuneration of Rs 50,000,” said a police official.

Deputy commissioner of police Satyabrata Bhoi said that various sections of Indian Penal Code and Immoral Trafficking (Prevention) Act have been slapped against Meher.

Meher had come to Bhubaneswar in 2003. Initially, he was employed by a bar owner with a monthly remuneration of Rs 1,500. Later, he left the job and started running sex trade in the city.