Bhubaneswar, April 5: A Kyrgyzstan embassy official today flew here from Delhi to take the 30-year-old alleged sex worker from their country, who was rescued by Chandrasekharpur police on March 23, into her custody.

The lady official reached Bhubaneswar this morning and later visited Chandrasekharpur police station. Then she went to the Women Helpline short-stay home where the Kyrgyz national was put up after being rescued by the police.

Sources said that the woman official fly to Delhi tomorrow with the alleged offender, from where she would be sent to her country by the embassy.

Programme manager of Women Helpline Benudhar Senapati said the foreign national left a letter before leaving the short-stay home.

"She has thanked us through the letter and also wrote that despite her erratic behaviour, the staff of the short-stay home had co-operated with her," Senapati said.

The woman, who had landed in India in February with a tourist visa, had told her counsellors that she used to work as a nursery teacher in Kyrgyzstan.

"She also told us that her parents were dead and her brother and sister were staying separately. Though initially she had refused food for a few days, she became normal after we got her in touch with officials of her country's embassy in Delhi who ensured her that she would shortly be taken back to Kyrgyzstan," said a counsellor at the short-stay home.

Earlier, the police had arrested Somesh Panda, who had allegedly brought the woman to Bhubaneswar.

During interrogation, Panda had told the police that the woman had been charging Rs 20,000 a night against sexual favours. Panda had also told the police that he had brought the woman from Calcutta just a day before she was rescued from the apartment.

The cops suspect Panda of having close links with Sunil Meher, the kingpin of sex trade in Bhubaneswar. "We have constituted a squad to nab Meher. We are also investigating whether Panda had brought other foreign nationals to the city for sex trade," said deputy commissioner of police Satyabrata Bhoi.

Social activists have demanded that the police should have interrogated the sex worker with the help of an interpreter to go to the bottom of the thriving sex trade in the city.

"The police should have traced the root of this sex trade as a foreign national was involved in this for the first time. Interrogation of the foreigner might have revealed vital clues about the modus operandi of the pimps," said Chitta Ranjan Das, a lawyer.

Employees of the short-stay home described the woman as kind-hearted.

"Initially, she created a lot of problems for us because she was afraid of getting arrested. Once we assured her that was not going to happen, she started sharing her feelings. When we took her to Childline, she cried seeing the children rescued by us. She has been distributing fruits to the children. We did not probe her about the sex trade because she might have broken down. She thanked all of us before leaving," said an employee.

Proliferation of sex rackets in Cuttack and Bhubaneswar has become a major concern for the police. In 2015, the police had registered 21 cases against sex rackets. They arrested 75 people and rescued 34 sex workers.