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New Delhi, November 15
The Delhi Police arrested hotel owner in the sex- for- job scam of Andaman and Nicobar where then Chief Secretary Jitendra Narain is accused of raping girls in job-for-sex scandal.
The case came to the fore when a 21-year-old girl filed a complaint with Port Blair police about the incident naming Narain and accused him of raping her in the pretext of giving a job.
The A&N Police arrested Narain last week, the Delhi Police arrested hotel owner Sandeep Singh alias Rinku from Karnal in Haryana on November 13.
The A&N Police had announced a cash award for Rinku and RL Rishi, then Labour Commissioner also allegedly found in call records discussing about the victim to be sent to Narain.
The police tracked the call of the officials and the interception of calls on Rinku’s phone and some cash withdrawals led them to role of the accused. Rishi is at large.
The A&N Police formed a Special Investigating Team (SIT) to investigate the case.
The woman told in her complaint that she had met Rinku outside Desi Lounge, his hotel in Port Blair, where she had taken a group of domestic tourists where she was their local guide for dinner.
Rinku asked her why she was doing “small jobs” and that he could arrange something “permanent” for her very soon. He then took her to meet Rishi, the Labour Commissioner, at his office. A month later, came the telephone call (which she recorded) and Rishi took her to the Chief Secretary’s residence on VIP Road in Port Blair.
The Delhi Police formed teams that raided over 100 hotels and guest houses in Haridwar and Rishikesh after receiving intel that Rinku had fled to the said spots to evade arrest. He was tracked down to Karnal and immediately arrested.
The officials added that they arrested him while he was trying to escape in a cab from Karnal to Bhubaneshwar, Odisha.
The police said that after fleeing Port Blair, Rinku was hiding in Delhi, Kolkata and Dhariwal before being nabbed at Karnal.
