As many as 105 women go missing every day and 17 get trafficked every week in Maharashtra, according to National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) 2019. Nationally, the state records the highest human trafficking and missing women cases, followed by Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal.

As per a report in Mumbai Mirror, of the 989 victims of trafficking, 88% were women and 6% were children. People were trafficked for various reasons such as bonded labour, organ trafficking, drug peddling, sexual exploitation, forced marriages etc. In case of Maharashtra, the reason for 95.6% of the trafficking was sexual exploitation through forced prostitution, data showed.