Bhubaneswar, April 25: Police will move court to attach the property of alleged sex racket kingpin Sunil Meher, who was arrested from Calcutta airport on Thursday.
In a significant breakthrough, the police said that they had traced a number of bank accounts of the 33-year-old pimp and are trying to trace his immovable property.
"We will also urge the courts, which had earlier granted conditional bail to Meher, to reject the same as he continued to commit crime despite being given so many chances," said police commissioner Y.B. Khurania.
They would also move to the court to take Meher in remand in connection with two other cases, the cops said. Sources said that Meher had obtained bail in six other cases.
The police have found Meher's link in the Chandrasekharpur police case on March 23 in which a 30-year-old sex worker from Kyrgyzstan was rescued. They later found that Somesh Panda who had brought the foreign national to Bhubaneswar had close links with Meher.
Meher, a native of Sambalpur, gave the police a slip in July last year when a sex racket was busted in a guesthouse at IRC Village under Nayapalli police station limits. The cops during the raid had rescued a Mumbai-based small-time model, who was hired by Meher.
The police said that Meher had a network of more than 150 call girls from the state and outside. "We suspect he has links in other states, including Calcutta, Goa and Haryana," said a police official.
The cops also said that they had found that the kingpin brought foreigners from Delhi and engaged them in sex trade in the city.
The police are also trying to find at least six other pimps, who helped Meher in running the illegal trade in the city. "We were told that he had engaged many women to get customers. They were also paid around Rs 50,000 every month. Since the arrest of Meher, his associates have escaped from the city," said a police official.
The police also suspect that Meher has links with Subhankar Naik, who had been arrested by the CBI in connection with a money laundering scam.
According to police sources, Naik supplied call girls through Meher to various influential people to manage the business of deposit collection firm, Seashore, which swindled crores of rupees from thousands of investors across the state.
Sources also pointed that Meher came in contact with Seashore chief Prashant Dash in 2013 in Jharapada jail after the alleged sex racket mastermind was arrested.





