thane eight women have been rescued from flesh trade in separate raids at thane and dombivli by the antihuman trafficking cell ahtc of the crime branch in the first incident based on a tipoff that a 37yearold woman from mulund would be coming to the service road near korum mall the sleuths sent a decoy to approach the suspect who promised to provide him with call girls at rs 5000 the decoy made the payment and asked the woman to fetch the girls who arrived in two autorickshaws they were caught and rescued while the woman was arrested the woman identified as chandrika panchal used to be a real estate agent who took to prostitution after her husband passed away two years ago said shakil shaikh senior inspector of the cell in the second incident in dombivli three women from west bengal were rescued and a women and pimp were arrested shaikh said that the women were forced into prostitution by one khatija khatun khatun would send the girls on receiving calls through a trusted network he added