PMLA Court Frames Charges Against Dance Bar Owner In 2013 Money Laundering Case Linked To Police Raid Rescuing 90 Girls

Mumbai: Seven years after submitting a prosecution difficulty versus a dancing bar proprietor, the distinctive Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) courtroom on Thursday mounted prices versus him. The charged Raju Shetty’s dancing bar remained in debate after an authorities raid, by which nearly 90 women had been saved in May 2013.

The authorities had truly recuperated Rs1.15 crore cash and jewellery price Rs23.51 lakh within the raid. Shetty’s 2 co-owners, moreover charged in case, are at the moment deceased. They had been decided as Jayram Shetty and Shobha Jayram Shetty.

As per the prosecution state of affairs, the Thane authorities had truly robbed Kapal bar and Dimple lodge on the night of May 2, 2013 primarily based upon information by an NGO. The prosecution asserted that the women had been found “herded in the congested bar hall gesticulating sexually towards the customers with the intention to lure them for flesh trade”.

The state of affairs was signed up with Panvel authorities. Later, the Enforcement Directorate (ED), as nicely, began a probe proper into money laundering. The ED had truly submitted a prosecution difficulty in December 2018 versus Shetty and his companions. The agency asserted that Shetty carried out the flesh career underneath the garments of answer bar.