CHENNAI: The sleuths of Anti-Vice Squad on Saturday arrested three persons, including two transgenders, who posed as women and solicited men by sending mails to random email ids, following a tip-off by a software engineer. Police said Satish (name changed), a techie from Arumbakkam, had received the email that offered escort services by women. He then called a mobile phone number mentioned in the email when a person, who spoke in a woman’s voice, said she and her friend were working in a private company and he could avail their services for Rs 15,000.The engineer, who promised that he would turn up at a spot on Poonamallee High Road, alerted the Anti-Vice Squad. When they reached the spot, two ‘women’, dressed in glamorous outfits, arrived on an auto. The engineer then passed on the money to them and took them inside his car when he found that they were not women but transgenders. The Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC) sleuths, who were watching, nabbed the transgenders Shabbu Sheik (25) and Heena (27) of Namasivayapuram, Choolaimedu. Police also nabbed auto driver Loganathan (34). Police said that transgenders were involved in similar incidents earlier and had been extorting money from gullible people. Police said they charged them under IPC sections 420 (Cheating) and 506 (1) (Criminal intimidation) and also under 41, 51A of Immoral Traffic (Prevention) act.Police said the transgenders in the city are now adopting a new trend of sending e-mails to random e-mail ids to solicit customers for flesh trade.Held in Similar CasePolice said Shabbu Sheik was earlier arrested in a similar case when she posed as a woman and solicited a software engineer, robbed his jewellery and forced him to withdraw cash from an ATM. “In most cases, the affected person would not volunteer to give a complaint to us,” a police official said.150 Transgenders in NungambakkamPolice said they were around 150 transgenders involved in prostitution in and around Nungambakkam and police are keeping a watch on them.
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