Prostitution racket busted at Porvorim

Prostitution racket busted at Porvorim
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Panaji: Crime branch sleuths busted a prostitution racket operating from a car on NH 17 at O Coqueiro junction, Porvorim and rescued three women. However, the person accused of procuring girls for running the racket is absconding.
Investigating officer PI (crime branch) Sunita Sawant said, “Acting on information that a man was getting girls in Wagon R to the junction for the purpose of prostitution, we reached the spot when we saw three women sitting in the wagon R. Nobody was in the driver’s seat and these three women
were sitting in the back seat.”
According to the PI, these women were brought to Goa with a promise of a job in the hotel industry. When they reached Goa from Mumbai, they were pushed into prostitution and told that they would be paid Rs 15,000 at the end of 15 days. The girls, two of them from West Bengal and one from Assam, all in their early twenties, said they had come by bus from Mumbai two days back and were picked up by one Patel from the Panaji bus stand.
They were taken to the same spot everyday at 5 pm and picked up the next morning. Explaining the modus operandi, PI Sawant said, “Patel would park the car with the women near the Karnataka bank and then go to the busy junction at Porvorim to procure customers. The customers had to hire a taxi in which they took the women for the night. Next morning, the women had to be dropped at the same spot”, said PI Sawant. According to the women, the customers had to pay Rs 6,000 per night to Patel, of which Rs 1000 was paid to the girls.
Patel has been booked by the police for procuring girls, forcing them into prostitution, living on their earnings and indulging in prostitution within 200m of the place of worship, ie the Holy Family church.

October 16,2008, The Times of India, Goa