A small time Telugu film actress was rescued from a prostitution racket and her pimp arrested in a raid at a five-star hotel in Goa, police said on Tuesday.

Police Inspector Siddhant Shirodkar told reporters that the raid was conducted late on Tuesday, after police sent a decoy customer to the hotel.

"We arrested her pimp Aisha Sayyad and rescued the actress who has been sent to a protective home," Shirodkar said.

The pimp had been offering the actress for prostitution in many posh resorts in the state in the recent past, the official said.

The actress is also said to have worked in Salman Khan's "Dabangg 2" and Akshay Kumar's "OMG - Oh My God".