A Pakistani has been sentenced to three years in jail for sex trade.
AA, 31, brought girls from Pakistan at the pretext of hiring them as housemaids and forced them into prostitution, reported 'Gulf News'.
According to the Sharjah Criminal Court documents, AA with the help of another suspect, an unidentified Pakistani, brought girls from their home country and 'sell them for Dh30,000 each'.
Following a tip-off, an undercover police team from the Preventive Security Department tracked AA and set a trap at a Sharjah shopping mall and arrested him along with a girl, MA.
The victim said she was brought from Pakistan to work as a maid in AA's house for Dh1,000 monthly salary. But upon her arrival, he took her to his apartment and invited two friends and send her to Ajman, where they tried raping her.
When she resisted their attempts, she was beaten and sent back to Sharjah, where AA made her work as housemaid during the day and as a prostitute at night.
The accused will be deported after serving his sentence.