Mumbai/Pune, Oct.18 (ANI): The Social Service Branch of Mumbai Police raided a bar in the city on Wednesday night and detained over 18 people, along with the bar manager and customers.
Mumbai is a popular source, transit and destination station for traffic in women and girls.
According to the police officials, they received information that women were indulging in flesh trade at the bar.
"We received information that bar girls dance here and ladies indulge in flesh trade. We raided this bar; four girls were caught dancing. There were seven customers, who have also been arrested and some staff has also been arrested," said Assistant Commissioner of Police, Mumbai, Nand Kumar Inamdar.
Meanwhile, a cheerleader from the popular IPL team Kolkata Knight Riders, Sana Chirawala, was arrested along with her local agent in Pune.
"Sana Chirawala, a cheerleader was found indulging in prostitution and she was looking for customers through her local agent. We sent a customer from our side, who contacted the lo9cal agent and he spoke to Sana and fixed up the charges. She had quoted 1.5 lakhs for two hours. After our customer reached the hotel, we carried out a raid and arrested both Sana and the local agent and filed cases against them under PETA," said a police official, Bhanupratap Barge.
South Asia is the second largest venue for human trafficking in the world, after East Asia, according to the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
Police had charged the owners of the restaurant and detained guests under the prohibition act and the Bombay Police Act.
The Prevention of Immoral Trafficking Act (PITA) act is meant to combat trafficking of females as well as prostitution in the city.
Over 150,000 people are known to be trafficked within the region every year - mostly for sex work, but also for labour, forced marriages and as part of the organ trade, according to UNODC officials.
Human trafficking is one of the fastest growing transnational organised crimes in South Asia.
Traffickers often take advantage of impoverished communities, luring girls and young women and girls with promises of jobs as maids or nannies in wealthy households in the cities. But, activists say, the reality is very different. (ANI)
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