Brothels raided, three quizzed

The Walana Vice Squad raided two brothels last week at Kiribathgoda and Maradana. Three women were taken in for questioning in this connection. The brothels were raided following search warrants from the Wattala and Maligakande Magistrate's Courts, sources told the Sunday Observer.

A policeman who posed off as a businessman was offered a woman sex worker for Rs. 4,000 at the brothel at Kiribathgoda by the woman manageress. The sex worker and the woman manageress were thereafter taken for questioning by the police. They were handed over to the Kiribathgoda police.

Meanwhile, police raided another brothel near a popular school at Maradana and took in for questioning a 39-year-old pregnant woman and a 52-year-old man who supplied the woman to the police decoy.

Two other women at the brothel and an effeminate man were also quizzed.The suspects were handed over to the Kiribathgoda and the Mardana police for further investigations.

Two months ago seven women found in a brothel at Dankotuwa area were fined Rs. 50,000 each by the Marawila Magistrate when the suspects pleaded guilty. The brothel was raided by Inspector Duminda Balasuriya, OIC, Walana Vice Squad, Panadura after obtaining a search warrant from the Marawila Magistrate courts. (JJ)