Meghalaya BJP VP Bernak Marak arrested in ‘sex racket case’ is brought to Tura
Bernard N Marak, a Meghalaya BJP vice president and member of the Garo Hills Autonomous District Council (GHADC), was arrested in Uttar Pradesh’s Hapur district on Tuesday and brought to Tura in connection with a case registered against him in Tura Women Police Station under the Immoral Trafficking (Prevention) Act. He would be sent for medical examination before appearing in Tura’s local court.
Marak, who is accused of conducting a sex racket at his farmhouse, was taken into custody by the Meghalaya Police yesterday, a day after he was detained in Uttar Pradesh’s Hapur. He was brought before a municipal court in Hapur, which granted him transit remand for two days.
The lawsuit was filed against him after police raided his farm property near Tura called Rimpu Bagan on July 22, where a suspected brothel was operating.
During the raid on the 30-room farm house, police arrested 73 people, including 23 women, and rescued five youngsters who were allegedly kept illegally in an unsanitary state.
He was apprehended by UP police while travelling in a taxi in the northern state, and police suspect he was attempting to enter Nepal from either Varanasi or Gorakhpur to avoid the lookout notice and a non-bailable arrest warrant issued against him after he failed to surrender despite orders to do so following a massive raid on his farmhouse, which resulted in the arrest of dozens of men and women and the seizure of illegal alcohol and even a large consignment of contraceptives.
