Daijiworld Media Network – Mangaluru (RJP)
Mangaluru, Jan 23: Police on Sunday January 22, raided a massage parlour on KS Rao Road in city and arrested 4 persons. The parlour was registered as an Ayurvedic Therapy Centre and massage services were offered there, said police.
Police also saved two young women from the parlour.
The manager of the parlour, Srinivas (37) from Kolar, Harikrishnan (38) from Kerala, Mohammed Sharif from Bejai (42), Mansoor (27) from city are the arrested persons.
The last three were customers in the parlour.
The parlour was operating from the third floor of a mall here. Some people had complained to the police about the activities in the parlour which prompted the Bunder police to raid the place.
Inspector Shantharam, ASI Shobha, Jagannatha Shetty, Reshma Nagappa and Rajesh Alva participated in the raid.
Police have been receiving several complaints regarding the illegal massage parlours those operated from the city. Under the guidance of police commissioner, several of them were raided and closed. But some of them still operated from decent and sophisticated places like malls.
Police had also received complaints during phone-in programmes in the recent past about the massage parlours being run in city.