Mumbai Sex Trade

Police have busted a flesh trade racket operating in Maharashtra's Thane city and rescued three women, an official said on Sunday.

The booming spa and massage parlour business in India has led to increasing demand for women from Thailand, many of whom are being duped and trafficked into slavery in the country’s sex industry, police, diplomats and activists said today. At least 40 Thai women have been rescued this year during police raids on massage parlours acting as fronts ...

Mumbai: The number of children trafficked for sex in the red light districts of Mumbai has dropped sharply, activists said, as they raised concerns over the trade shifting underground to private lodges and residences. A study by the non-governmental International Justice Mission (IJM), Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in Mumbai, mapped n...

Residents of Mumbai's Kamathipura, considered Asia's largest red light district, have mounted a campaign to place a curb on the sex trade in the area. Sex workers however have expressed helplessness, even as activists claim the move would only open up the area to property developers.

Officials of the Social Security Cell on Tuesday night busted a high-profile sex racket and arrested a couple and two small-time TV actresses who chose to be a part of the flesh trade to earn an extra buck.

Cops raid restaurant in Oshiwara after receiving tip-off that girls attending a party were prostitutes; arrest organiser, his associate, restaurant owner and manager; 11 girls rescued

He's no movie star. But assistant commissioner of police (ACP) Vasant Dhoble of Social Service (SS) branch apparently has his photographs lying around in people's desk drawers. Well, not just any people. During a a raid at a hotel Dhoble found his photographs from a drawer close to the cash counter. The staff allegedly revealed that they had been g...

In a major breakthrough, a 25-year-old man was arrested on Saturday for luring a woman to Mumbai from Kolkata on the pretext of getting her into Bollywood and then forcing her into prostitution six years ago.

A 24-year-old woman from Kolkata, who was brought to Mumbai six years ago, on Sunday escaped from a flat in Versova village where she was being held captive. She came to the city of dreams to act in films. Her dream soon turned into a nightmare after she was forced into the flesh trade.

Police have busted a flesh trade racket operating in Maharashtra's Thane city and rescued three women, an official said on Sunday.

The booming spa and massage parlour business in India has led to increasing demand for women from Thailand, many of whom are being duped and trafficked into slavery in the country’s sex industry, police, diplomats and activists said today. At least 40 Thai women have been rescued this year during police raids on massage parlours acting as fronts ...

Mumbai: The number of children trafficked for sex in the red light districts of Mumbai has dropped sharply, activists said, as they raised concerns over the trade shifting underground to private lodges and residences. A study by the non-governmental International Justice Mission (IJM), Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in Mumbai, mapped n...

Residents of Mumbai's Kamathipura, considered Asia's largest red light district, have mounted a campaign to place a curb on the sex trade in the area. Sex workers however have expressed helplessness, even as activists claim the move would only open up the area to property developers.

Officials of the Social Security Cell on Tuesday night busted a high-profile sex racket and arrested a couple and two small-time TV actresses who chose to be a part of the flesh trade to earn an extra buck.

Cops raid restaurant in Oshiwara after receiving tip-off that girls attending a party were prostitutes; arrest organiser, his associate, restaurant owner and manager; 11 girls rescued

He's no movie star. But assistant commissioner of police (ACP) Vasant Dhoble of Social Service (SS) branch apparently has his photographs lying around in people's desk drawers. Well, not just any people. During a a raid at a hotel Dhoble found his photographs from a drawer close to the cash counter. The staff allegedly revealed that they had been g...

In a major breakthrough, a 25-year-old man was arrested on Saturday for luring a woman to Mumbai from Kolkata on the pretext of getting her into Bollywood and then forcing her into prostitution six years ago.

A 24-year-old woman from Kolkata, who was brought to Mumbai six years ago, on Sunday escaped from a flat in Versova village where she was being held captive. She came to the city of dreams to act in films. Her dream soon turned into a nightmare after she was forced into the flesh trade.