Words like "chokas", "paau", "poni" and "galory" may mean nothing to common people, but they were used as codes by a shopkeeper to sell sex toys in a Delhi market, police said Tuesday.
Ashish Gupta, 26, was arrested from New Delhi's Palika Market Monday with 21 electronic sex toys, medicines, pornographic films and other obscene material, police said.
In order to attract customers and to hide his activities from police, he used a code language.
"Gupta attracted his customers using the word 'chokas', meaning good. He would call male customers 'paau' and female customers 'poni'," police said.
In case of any trouble, he used the word 'galory'.
"For male organ, he used the word 'Akel Ram' while for female organ he use 'Levedi'. He used 'TR' for pornographic film and for a big object he used the word 'Langtar'," police said.
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