One hour agoWriter: Devanshu Tiwari / Rajesh Sahu
10:30 in the morning. Three girls are standing under the Charbagh Metro with their mouths tied. Stops passers-by and asks, “Will you go to the hotel?” Most people ignore and move on. But some stay. They start talking about rates. As soon as the rate is fixed, he starts following the girl.
Dainik Bhaskar’s team reached Charbagh to investigate the business of prostitution in Lucknow. Talked to girls posing as customers. Ask for the rate. Know about hotels. Find out about brokers. Let’s tell the whole thing from one side.
If you look at a girl twice, she will come near you
Charbagh has bus, metro and railway station within 400 metres. The whole area is always crowded. In the same crowd, some girls are seen standing with their mouths tied and hanging a bag. These girls are sex workers. Keeps looking here and there in search of customer. The one whom she caught sight of, looks at him for some time. If the person in front is watching twice or more then these sex workers will reach him. The same happened with the reporter of Dainik Bhaskar who came to investigate the matter.
- Understand the whole thing with sex worker through this graphic.
Don’t be afraid of police, all is set
After this we stood in front of a street 100 meters away from the metro. There are about 10 hotels in this 150 meter long street. These hotels are also seen to be associated with the business of prostitution. After standing here for some time, a woman of about 30 years came. Two other people were with him. Both stood at a distance of 20 meters. He was a broker. The woman stood for a while. I called him to me with the gesture of my eyes and started the conversation. Look at this graphic.
After knowing about sex workers, we came to know about their brokers and hotels. The information received was shocking.
Girls find customers, brokers provide security
Sex workers are seen alone while searching for customers. But brokers are present around them. They have no role in finding customers. Their main job is to provide security. There is some kind of dispute between the girl and the customer, then these pimps come down to fighting. They have their own group. The local shopkeeper tells that these people have misbehaved with civilized people many times.
No ID is required when going to hotel with these girls
There is no street or place for sex workers in Lucknow like Shivdaspur in Varanasi. Here the whole game is played in hotels. The hotel has its own setting. When these girls reach the hotel with a boy, no ID is required. While not doing so can lead to seizure of the hotel under Section-188 and action against the hotel owner.
60% money goes to broker and hotel
A young man working in a nearby hotel gave us some information about this. He says that this business has been going on for a long time and can never stop. Because many big giants are involved in this game. Who are those giants? When asked, the young man refused to give his name. He said, “If sex workers bring a customer at a rate of Rs 500, then Rs 200 goes to the hotel, Rs 100 to the broker. 200 rupees are his own. However, sometimes she gets more money. Then their own share increases.
There is a police post between the metro and the bus station. Whose responsibility is the complete security here. We reached out there for more details on the matter.
Police’s answer- There is so much crowd here, who should see whom
When we reached the police post, we found a constable named Santosh Kumar there. When asked about the prostitution happening here, he got the answer, “There is no such information. Anyway, there is so much crowd here, so many people are coming, see whom? We asked them, can the administration take any further action to stop this? His reply was, “That area does not come under our post. Our area is towards the bus stand.
Man trapped in the trap of sex workers does not go to the police
Why doesn’t the police take action? Retired Inspector of UP Police Lalta Mishra gives us the answer to this question. He says, “A person trapped in the trap of sex workers never comes to the police. He is afraid that the police might take action against him. In such a situation, when the matter does not come to the police, action cannot be taken at all. Yes, many times the police department takes action in case of big forgery or crime. Charbagh has also been raided many times.
This is the case of Shivdaspur of Varanasi. Everyday there is a fight here. No complaint goes to the police.
We can’t find work anywhere, so this is what we have to do
We could not find the answer to this question in Lucknow. Found in Shivdaspur, the red light area of Varanasi. Meena, 65, is in this business. She says, “Poverty forces us to strip behind closed doors. above sex worker baby The stamp has been affixed. In such a situation, our children also start doing the same.
Gudiya Sansthan is taking the children of sex workers out of this business Ajit Singh works for the children of sex workers in the red light area of Varanasi. He formed an organization named Gudiya in 1993. The work of the organization is to teach the children of sex workers. Ajit’s aim is to make the children capable enough to find some other employment. Don’t get yourself trapped in this quagmire of prostitution. Ajit Singh has so far sent around 500 brokers to jail. It was not easy to do all this. There were fatal attacks on him 24 times. But he did not back down. The result was that big celebrities including Amitabh Bachchan praised this initiative of Ajit.
- Now let us understand prostitution in India, prostitution law and its business through graphic.
Prostitution law in the country
China is at the forefront of the prostitution business. A business of 66 thousand crore rupees in India is related to this.
Prostitution has been going on in India since 2900 years ago. Its form changed from time to time.
- In the end, let us know how many sex workers are there in the whole of India.
