NEW DELHI: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Crime Branch of Delhi Police has arrested five foreign women, including a pimp, for their alleged involvement in a prostitution racket. The accused are from Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan and were arrested in Lajpat Nagar by a team led by additional DCP Joy Tirkey on Wednesday after receiving a tip-off. All the accused are in their twenties and work as models during the day, and had come to India on tourist visa, said sources."Three of the accused women are from Uzbekistan while two others are from Kyrgyzstan,'' said DCP (Crime), Ashok Chand. Sources in the crime branch said the accused had first come to the city during the Commonwealth Games. They later kept on visiting the capital as they found it lucrative to operate here."The accused solicited clients only through references. They preferred that their clients took them away from Delhi during the weekend, preferably to hill stations. They even charged Rs 5,000 to strike a deal,'' said a source. The girls charged anything between Rs 25,000 and Rs 50,000 for a day."Information was received by sub-inspector Sharat Kohli that a call girl racket involving foreign nationals was being run from Lajpat Nagar for the past two months. It was found that the gang kept shifting their address. After we identified the pimp, a decoy customer contacted her on her cellphone. On Wednesday, they agreed to meet the decoy at a place in Lajpat Nagar-I. On meeting the decoy, the pimp told him that the charge was Rs 25,000 to Rs 30,000 a day. A deal was struck and part payment of Rs 5,000 was made to the pimp, who then took the decoy inside the premises. Police immediately raided the place and nabbed the five accused,'' said DCP Chand.A case under the appropriate sections of the law has been registered and all the accused have been arrested, said sources. "Interrogation of all the accused revealed that the pimp has been staying in India for the last three years. She operated from different areas in NCR and shifted her base frequently to avoid detection. She lives in a rented accommodation, and pays Rs 28,000 a month as rent. Some of the girls stay with her while others stay in another rented accommodation in Jungpura, where they pay a rent of Rs 25,000 a month. Each of the girls earn an average of more than Rs 2 lakh a month,'' said Tirkey.Each time they come to India their duration of stay in the country ranged between 2 months to 6 months. When they go back they take with them large quantities of leather goods and garments as such articles fetch them huge profits in their respective countries, claimed sources in the Crime Branch.