<p>The Central Crime Branch (CCB) sleuths have arrested a 38-year-old man and rescued 14 girls from his house in Nagadevanahalli.</p>.<p>The suspect, Praveen Shetty, would lure girls from other states promising them jobs and later forced them into illegal activities.</p>.<p>The victims hailed from Delhi, UP, Rajasthan, Punjab and Maharastra. They told the police that Shetty was harassing them and locked them in the house when they resisted him.</p>.<p>The police booked Shetty under IPC section 370-exploitation which include, prostitution or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labour or slavery), and produced him before a magistrate who remanded him in judicial custody.</p>.<p>The victims have been sent to a state home for woman for rehabilitation. Efforts are on to hand them over to their families, a senior police officer said.</p>
<p>The Central Crime Branch (CCB) sleuths have arrested a 38-year-old man and rescued 14 girls from his house in Nagadevanahalli.</p>.<p>The suspect, Praveen Shetty, would lure girls from other states promising them jobs and later forced them into illegal activities.</p>.<p>The victims hailed from Delhi, UP, Rajasthan, Punjab and Maharastra. They told the police that Shetty was harassing them and locked them in the house when they resisted him.</p>.<p>The police booked Shetty under IPC section 370-exploitation which include, prostitution or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labour or slavery), and produced him before a magistrate who remanded him in judicial custody.</p>.<p>The victims have been sent to a state home for woman for rehabilitation. Efforts are on to hand them over to their families, a senior police officer said.</p>