Mysore: Ten girls from West Bengal and Bangladesh, including two minors, have been rescued from a sex racket in Mysore. The CID's anti-trafficking squad raided a motel after getting a tip off by an NGO.
The police said that the hotel seems to have been built specifically for such a racket with secret rooms and hideouts and an alarm system to alert girls to take shelter in case of a raid.
The girls were rescued by breaking open a small secret hideout. They have been shifted to a rehabilitation centre. Lodge owner Lokesh Shetty and two others accused in the racket are absconding.
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07:12 PM, Apr 25, 2013
Kolkata: Sex workers of Kolkata's largest red-light area are being given training by an NGO to identify fake currency notes to prevent them from being duped by some clients. The training programme conducted by Durbar Mahila Samanaya Committee, an NGO working for the sex workers, is the same as that given to visually challenged persons who learn to distinguish between genuine and counterfeit notes through touch and from hearing the...
12:48 PM, Apr 14, 2013
Real hero Priti Patkar runs night shelters for children in Mumbai's red light areas. Her mission is to provide children with a safe haven and grooming them for a future away from prostitution. ...
09:40 AM, Mar 20, 2013
Model and actress Sherlyn Chopra was seen celebrating her birthday with with sex workers in Mumbai. ...
05:12 PM, Feb 12, 2013
Three Goa policemen were suspended for allegedly exploiting commercial sex workers in Panaji, police said on Friday. Two head constables - Vaman Naik and Santosh Vengurlekar - and constable Vijay Gaikwad were suspended on Thursday after two commercial sex workers named them in their complaint to the crime branch, police said. ...
11:46 AM, Dec 07, 2012
Hyderabad: The state has seen a significant rise in the use of condoms, which in turn has reduced the risk of AIDS among the high risk group like sex-workers and truck drivers. There has been a 100 percent rise in condom usage in the state for the past four years, said Dr PL Jayachandra Reddy, joint director of AP State AIDS Control Society (APSACS). For 2012-13, the National AIDS Control...
01:17 PM, Aug 13, 2012
New Delhi: Four sex workers from the capital's GB Road red light area have challenged a government eviction order against them in the Delhi High Court, which has restrained police from taking any action, for now. The eviction order was issued by the sub-divisional magistrate (SDM), Paharganj, under the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956 (ITPA). "The orders passed by the SDM, directing our eviction from our residential premises without providing...
01:03 AM, Jul 27, 2012
Mumbai: Thirty years since the first reported case of a person infected with the HIV virus and 25 million deaths later, an AIDS-free generation still seems an audacious goal. According to the UNAIDS, globally close to 3 million people get infected with HIV every year. So with the common goal of marking the "beginning of the end of the AIDS epidemic", close to 25,000 international HIV scientists will meet in...
01:30 PM, Jul 20, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to examine Centre's plea that sex workers should not be allowed to operate in the country under the cloak of working "with dignity" as suggested by a panel, since it would be contrary to the statute prohibiting the world's oldest trade. Appearing for the Centre, Additional Solicitor General PP Malhotra told a special bench of justices Altamas Kabir and Gyan Sudha Misra...
07:27 PM, Jul 12, 2012
Mumbai: On April 29, the police raided a pub in Khar after receiving a tip-off about a flesh trade racket operational there, and detained 16 girls. However, families of many of the detainees say they are just college students or housewives from working class families who had only gone to the pub to have a good time. They claim they have been tagged prostitutes and consigned to a rehabilitation centre...
12:15 PM, May 09, 2012
London: Women engaged in sex trade in most developing countries, especially in Asia, are nearly 14 times more likely to get infected by HIV compared to general women population, a new study has claimed. The research, an analysis of over 100 studies involving nearly 100,000 female sex workers in 50 low and medium-income countries, found that overall prevalence of HIV in these women was 12 per cent. But, they are...
01:01 PM, Mar 15, 2012
Ahmednagar: Girish Kulkarni has changed the face of the brothels of Ahmednagar. Through his tireless efforts he has ensured that no minors girls are bought and sold in Ahmednagar. He has also set up schools for the children of sex workers. Richa's eyes don't betray the life she led earlier that was a life confined to a brothel. She had been sold to a brothel as a child. "I'm the...
08:55 AM, Feb 22, 2012
Mumbai: Forced into prostitution at the age of 10, Ayesha is fighting back. Not just that she is also helping others like her find life away from the brothels of the city. Ayesha was rescued by a man from a dance bar who later became her husband. Today, she is reaching out to other sex workers, helping them become a part of mainstream society. "Ayesha Didi has been a great...
08:31 AM, Dec 06, 2011
Paris: France is planning to ban prostitution and the Government has decided to bring a law to do so. The bill to ban prostitution will be introduced in France's lower house National Assembly on December 6. Guy Geoffroy of the ruling UMP party claimed that the resolution to outlaw prostitution has been signed by officials of all political groups in the National Assembly. Even though prostitution is not illegal in...
05:41 PM, Dec 01, 2011
New Delhi: Another sex scandal has rocked Kerala. A man has been arrested for trying to sell his daughter to the sex trade in Kothamangalam. Police said the fourteen-year-old victim was sexually exploited in cars and autorickshaws for the past three months. The police were tipped off by an anonymous caller and it was then that they nabbed the girl's father. Two other men were also arrested in the case....
08:14 AM, Jul 04, 2011
Sex trafficking survivors push for more stringent laws to be put in place across Asia. ...
11:16 AM, Apr 06, 2011
The Municipal Corporation of Kolkata will be the first civic body to give free mediclaim policies to sex workers. ...
08:48 AM, Jan 31, 2011
Mumbai: The rather unnecessary curiosity over Reema Kagti's new project comes entirely from Aamir Khan's presence in the film. And the latest dope is that a prominent part of the movie is located in a red-light area and apparently the star wants to do them in real locations. "It is a thriller about a cop played by Aamir Khan in search of the truth in the red-light area. Reema Kagti's...
06:49 PM, Jan 06, 2011
Daughters of sex workers have formed an organisation called Parcham. ...
11:13 AM, Feb 24, 2010
It's a rare foray into contemporary installation art. ...
12:33 AM, Nov 18, 2009
