Mumbai Crime: Brave 21-year-old Bangladeshi girl escapes from brothel through drainpipe

Mumbai: In an appalling and shameful news about sex racket and prostitution, a 21-year-old Bangladeshi girl managed to escape from a Grant Road brothel with nothing but sheer courage and a little bit of luck.

The girl used to live in Bangladesh with her family. One of her relatives told her about an agent who said he could get her a job in Mumbai. Lured by the promise of a well-paying job, the girl boarded a ship to Kolkata. From there, she took a train to Mumbai, where she arrived on January 23. Sources from the police said, “The agent met her and told her he had found her a job as a security guard. Instead, he took her straight to a brothel at Grant Road,” reported Mid-Day.

The girl quickly realised that she is being thrown into prostitution. In retaliation, the brothel runners locked her in a dark room and tortured her for five days, hoping to break her spirit. She bided her time until the wee hours of the fifth day, on January 27, when she saw everyone sleeping and decided to escape. She managed to open the window in her room and found that she was on the first floor, so she climbed down the drainpipe and escaped.

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She looked for anyone she could ask for help, but the only language she could speak was Bengali. As luck would have it, the first person she stopped for help was a cabbie who knew Bengali too. When she told him about her ordeal, he immediately took her to the DB Marg police station.

An officer said, “When the girl came to the police station, we listened to her story and lodged an FIR against the culprits under Sections 370 (trafficking), 343 (wrongful confinement for three or more days), and 34 (common intention) of the Indian Penal Code, along with Sections 3,5,6,7,8 of the Prevention of Immoral Trafficking Act.”

The cops also raided the brothel, but by then, the place had been cleared. The girl told the cops that the agent had taken her passport when she was landed in India and that there are more girls who were trapped by the accused. The police have sent her to a rehabilitation centre, and are searching for the entire gang of brothel agents and owners.