What made her talk engaging was her reference to how buyers remain largely invisible in society although they are the ones who create the demand for girls. The West Bengal Commission for Protection of Child Rights, in association with the International Justice Mission, on Thursday came up with startling revelations about child prostitution in Kolkata, including the fact that it is more prevalent in residential areas of south Kolkata than anywhere else in the city.
Hollywood actress Ashley Judd will be in Delhi at the end of the month to take part in a three-day event on violence against women and girls. A Bangladeshi woman, who had been staying at Naari Sanrakshan Gruh in the city, was sent for deportation on Friday.
The year-old woman was brought to the protection home five years ago following orders of a local court. Busting a prostitution racket ran by soliciting customers through an online portal, city anti-vice squad police have rescued four women from Delhi and Kolkata and arrested a year old mastermind.
The crime branch on Sunday busted an inter-state prostitution racket and rescued two girls from Delhi, originally from Kolkata, and arrested a pimp. Police said that the pimp, Shankar Gowda, a native of Bengaluru, Karnataka, and resident of Mumbai, Maharashtra, was running the racket through a website. The city police, in two separate cases, rescued six women, who were forced into prostitution, and arrested two agents on Saturday.
The agents' accomplices are on the run. The city police on Sunday busted a prostitution racket and arrested nine call girls, one pimp and seven customers from a house in Jawahar Nagar's street number - 7. Police here on Monday rescued a girl, who alleged that her mother had been forcing her into prostitution.
