Delhi women being ensnared, forced into Goa’s flesh trade

An organised network linking Delhi to Goa is luring vulnerable women specifically working in the catering industry or bar dancers. However, these rescued women are not minors and almost in all cases above 21.

Highly placed sources in Goa Police told Millennium Post that in Goa’s red light area and other places where the prostitution racket is being run, there is a high demand for women above twenty. Adding to this information, an NGO activist from in Goa said : “Say for instance, we have rescued over 300 victims and only two or three girls were below the age of 21 and none of them were minor.”

The modus operandi of the traffickers is that the women from the catering industry are scouted during lavish weddings and big parties where they are paid Rs 1000 to Rs 2500 depending on their looks, are offered upto Rs 6000 for each assignment. The dancers are targeted by pimps and are offered handsome money in Goa for the same profession. If the woman agrees to the deal, she is paid handsome token money and handed a flight ticket from Delhi to Goa. But once they reach Goa they are forced into the flesh trade.

An anti-trafficking NGO working in Goa – Arz (Anyay Rahit Zindagi), has urged Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to act against this organized trafficking racket. The NGO on Tuesday wrote a letter to Delhi CM to join hands with them to prevent, protect and rehabilitate girls trafficked from Delhi to Goa for Commercial Sexual Exploitation (CSE). According to the NGO, most of the time the victims are either from dysfunctional families or are foreign national visiting Delhi.

Delhi is also a transit for trafficking foreign nationals. The foreign nationals mainly include Bangladeshis, Russians, Uzbeks, among others who are first trafficked to Delhi and then to Goa after taking away their passport/Visa on pretext of given them job opportunities in Hotels, Clubs and Casinos in Goa with higher payments.