New Delhi: a woman from the West Bengal who was recently rescued from a notorious “Kothas” or brothel on the Gastinburg (GB) road claims that during her work, her 3-year-old son lives in a government-funded nursing home that charges her 2,000 rupees a month in“Maintenance”.
The female complainant was allegedly trafficked from the West Bengal by her boyfriend, Nurul Hassan, with whom she had eloped before he sold her to a pimp for 10,000 rupees. Hassan was later arrested by West Bengal police.
The traffickers allegedly took her to brothel No. 56 on GB road, commonly known as “Maayka”, there she was forced into prostitution.” Maayka’s wife, Babita, forced me to send my child to a centre run by the Society for participation in development (SPID) to care for and protect him. I was told that all the women who worked in brothels left their children There,” the victim wrote in a complaint to the Delhi Child Welfare Commission (CWC) .
Since then, the centre’s“Ji Shifu” has come to collect a monthly“Maintenance fee” of 2,000 rupees. “She said:”’Ji Shifu’ came to me and asked for a ‘maintenance fee’ ; I called Babita, she gave him 2000 rupees along with food and clothes.
“From 2021 September to May 2022, I did sex work for nine months to support my child,” the complainant said.
The victim told the first post, it was only after she had fled the GB road brothel that she realised the SPID centre was taking in the children for free. “When I came back and asked the police for custody of my son, the SPID administration told me that they would only give the child to me if the child welfare committee gave the order. After that, I went to the child welfare committee, where I was told that the centre was not allowed to take any money from me or any other woman,” she said.
The woman told the first post that she had never been sued for her sex work. “Babita kept all my money,” she said. “During the nine months I was there, she made seven payments to master ji.
“Babita suspected I would run away, so she made me leave my son in a nursing home and never gave me money for sex work,” she added.
“They (SPID officials) are authorized to receive a monthly allowance of 2,000 rupees per person to support their 25 children, and if the amount increases they can also receive donations from other non-governmental organization,” Roop Sudesh Vimal, a juvenile justice expert and member of the CWC, told the first post. However, taking money from victims is not encouraged at all,” he said.”.
Meanwhile, Virendra Singh, director of the Mission Mukti Foundation, told the first post that the foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to working with NCPCR to save unfortunate women and minors, he played a role in tracking the children and in the police rescue of the children.
“When we went to the CWC to get custody of the children, we found that the CWC officials were also at fault,” he said, they should prepare a social survey (S.I.R) and a household survey (H.I.R) as soon as they receive any child, to classify children as sexually exploited, orphaned or capacity parents.
If CWC officials had investigated, they could have easily discovered that the woman had been trafficked, Singh added.
When asked about the procedure, Vimal said that under Article 31 of the Juvenile Justice Act, CWC officials were required to conduct an s. I. R and H. I. R. “There is no set time for these two investigations, but there really must be a record of each child,” he said, adding that vested interests should be investigated.
When contacted for comment, SPID vice president Lalitha S denied the money charges, saying her organization does not promote prostitution, “There are people who are trying to discredit the image of our non-governmental organization,” she said. “We’ve been working in this field for 30 years and have a lot of good badges. She added that the complainant had her Aadhar card and that SPID had therefore kept her children, also after informing the CWC.
She was rescued from a brothel in January after the victim 2021 her whereabouts and a selfie to her brother from a client’s cell phone.
Her brother subsequently filed a complaint and the woman was found in brothel No. 56. However, she was not found when the police searched the brothel.
Instead, she was found in her hometown and told the police that her pimps had locked her up during a raid, and that they had then put her on a train back to her hometown to settle things with the police. “They told me to come back after I had sorted things out with the police,” she said, adding that she had regained custody on Monday with the help of West Bengal police and Mission Mukti Volunteers.
However, pimps and madams are on the run. The police are trying to catch them.
Despite repeated phone calls and text messages, the chair of the CWC did not respond to Firstpost’s inquiries
