Raipur, Aug 4 (Inditop.com) Too poor to cough up the bail amount, a former national level woman athlete was still lodged in a jail in the Chhattisgarh capital Tuesday, four days after being arrested for prostitution, police said.
A police officer who arrested Nisha Shetti, 26, last Friday from a posh locality of Raipur said she had revealed during interrogation that she was forced to become a call girl due to deprivation and had travelled to Raipur from Mumbai to earn Rs.50,000 from a few businessmen, who had booked her for 15 days.
“Nisha along with two other women, who were arrested July 31 from Devendra Nagar, informed police that she entered into prostitution recently to get over starvation,” Shashimohan Singh, additional superintendent of police, Raipur, and the officer who is investigating the case, told Inditop.
Nisha, who originally belongs to Assam and had reportedly won a silver medal in athletics at the 1998 National Games, has told the investigating officer that she had been in debt since 2007 after her husband, Sunil Shetti, who was also a sportsperson, died due to kidney problems.
Nisha reportedly became a call girl to fend for herself and her five-year-old daughter.
A local court here has granted her bail but she is still in jail as she has been unable to deposit a surety of Rs.10,000.
She is set to be released within a day and two as several sports figures here have stepped in to help out “a person from the sports fraternity” and deposit the surety amount to secure her release.
“It’s my moral duty to help out a girl who was unfortunately driven to prostitution,” Vidhan Mishra, patron, Chhattisgarh Olympic Association, told Inditop.
He said: “It’s a shame for the sports fraternity that a girl has chosen prostitution to get over poverty. It’s an eye-opener for the government that has no policy to financially back-up the players who have performed at the national level games.”
