Lucknow: A sex racket was exposed by the police last night in its raid in Hotel Lords Palace here.

During the raid the police found various couples in different rooms in obscene positions.

Police has arrested 12 people from the hotel along with the hotel operator who used to bring girls to the hotel and operated the sex racket in the hotel.

All the six girls and boys arrested by the police belong to Rampur.

While the girls have been sent to women's jail, the boys were kept in the police station itself.

The raid was conducted after the police was informed by the residents about sex racket being run in various hotels of the area.

The residents also alleged that despite of repeated complaints to police about the ongoing sex rackets, the police didn't taok any action earlier.