Own Correspondent: The port city of Chittagong has now become a prostitute village. In the residential hotels and guest houses of all the police stations under the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Police, there is a lot of prostitution going on. The former police commissioner was so vocal against such businesses that during his tenure, prostitution was openly banned across the city. A week after the current Police Commissioner Krishnapad Roy joined, the prostitution business flourished in the areas of Kotwali Police Station, Patenga Police Station, Khulshi Police Station, Akbar Shah Police Station, Halishahar Police Station, Chawkbazar Police Station, and Chandgaon Police Station.
ASI Sabirul, the self-proclaimed cashier of the Metropolitan Intelligence Police, controls these businesses. Although he is not currently working at CMP, his salaried employee, Masud, is regularly collecting a monthly salary from all prostitutes. On this side, with the indirect help of Kotwali police station in-charge Nayan Barua and Patharghata outpost in-charge Nayan Barua, the prostitutes of Al Rasheed residential hotel in Firingi Bazar and self-proclaimed cashiers from all the hotels are collecting monthly salaries through sepoy Quddus.
Self-proclaimed cashiers of Swa-Swa Police Stations are issuing unwritten licenses to prostitutes on the basis of a monthly subscription fee to carry out prostitution business with the implicit consent of the Officer-in-Charge.
In the residential hotels, motels, and guest houses of the tourist spot Foy’s Lake area, sex trade and immoral relations are going on freely.
There are complaints that several hotels, motels, and guest houses in the area under Khulshi Thana are out of compliance. There are various illegal and unethical facilities provided to the guests. Among the residential hotels in this area, several hotels, motels, and guest houses, including Motel Six Swarnali, have been accused of various immoral crimes.
According to research, anyone of any age, including minor couples, school-college students, and extramarital affairs, can easily spend time alone here. To take advantage of this, rooms are rented by the hour and for the entire night at exorbitant rates without even the slightest background check.
In addition, according to the needs of the special guests and visitors who take a room in the residential hotel, food and entertainment are provided to the Madhu Kanyas. According to the sources, these hotels, motels, and guest houses in Foy’s Lake have become trusted places for fearless drug consumption by renting rooms with Madhu Chakra. The hotel boy in charge of this hotel, the manager, and the people who introduce the owner make it possible for all these unethical activities to go smoothly.
A married couple visiting Foy’s Lake, on condition of anonymity, complained, “We often visit Foy’s Lake with family.” One has to suffer embarrassment while entering and exiting here. The brokers of the hotel kept openly saying that there was no police trouble and to board the hotel with full security. In the wake of complaints about such uncomfortable offers, when the customers sat down at Motel Six Swarnali located in Foy’s Lake area under Khulshi Police Station of the city last Friday, it was seen that the people in charge of the front desk quickly filled out a form and contracted them without taking full details of the couples coming to the hotel. Sending to the room.
At the time, due to security reasons, the hotel did not even ask for the couple’s national identity card or whether they were married or whether they had come to spend time alone in a relationship. False information and inconsistencies are visible in each couple’s entry form.
Most double boarders at the hotel rent rooms for short periods of time alone without proper identity verification or a copy of a national identity card or official identification. Even when reporters were standing at the hotel reception, the hotel authorities rented rooms to three pairs of unmarried youths for only 2 to 3 hours in front of the reporters.
On inquiry, it is known that on average, about 50–60 couples come to Motel Six Swarnali to spend time alone like this.
According to sources, smart, beautiful prostitutes are also kept separately for bachelor customers as per demand.
When asked about this, the employees failed to respond. After that, when asked whether the information at the front desk matches with the boarders staying at the motel at that time, a person named Anwar claimed to be a shareholder of the owner and told the reporters in a hot mood, “There is nothing like that, and he will give detailed information later after facing various questions. By tricking them into a separate office room on the ground floor of the hotel, at one stage of giving information, he humbly confessed all their misdeeds.
At the time, he claimed that in more or less all residential hotels in the Foy’s Lake area, rooms are rented to unmarried young people and college students for a short period of time to spend time alone. Even several hotels in the Foy’s Lake area are directly involved in the prostitution business, said Anwar.
They have been doing business for a long time while keeping close ties with the police administration, alleged journalists, and local political leaders. In context, he made a reference to a local online portal journalist in Chittagong, introducing him as his friend. Later, after asking the online journalist to call him, Anwar did not call him. When the journalist, who introduced himself as a friend, was called, he denied knowing anyone named Anwar and hung up.
