Cops rescue woman forced into prostitution
Thu, Nov 6 02:16
2Days after the Additional Commissioner of Police, Dr K Venkatesan, and the DB Marg police took an initiative to assist sex workers wishing to leave the profession, one Bengali woman being forced into prostitution was rescued and reunited with her husband by the officers of DB Marg police station on Tuesday.The victim (25) was being held against her will by Kumar Yadav (32) and Ashok Yadav (28) at the second floor of Krishna building in Grant road.The police raided the flat after being approached by the aunt of the victim's husband, and arrested the two men. The victim was found hiding under a bed, as she had been told by her captors that she would be arrested if caught.The accused are in police custody till Friday and have been charged with rape, illegal detention of a woman and also selling a woman for prostitution.
The woman was also allegedly beaten up by the duo, and had marks on her body. The victim was reunited with her husband who worked as a construction worker in the city and had been trying to locate her for the last two months. The victim had been brought to the city by a relative under the all too common ruse of procuring a job.Her relative sent her to two of his friends, who he claimed would hire her as a maid but they later sold her to the Yadavs. In the same flat, the police also found four more sex workers, who were sent to the Womens Remand Home in Chembur from where the police will help them get back to their home towns. The police are yet to arrest the victim's relative and the other two men as they are believed to be out of the city.
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