Mumbai sex racket: Woman makes daring escape from Grant Road brothel

In Bangladesh the girlrsquos relative tells her about an agent who promised to find her a job in Mumbai She boards a ship out of Bangladesh to Kolkata From there she gets on a train to Mumbai The agent meets her and tells her he found her a job as a security guardSold into prostitution in a new country where she knew no one a 21yearold Bangladeshi girl managed to escape from a Grant Road brothel with nothing but sheer courage and a little bit of luckCrossed the seas for a jobThe 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 wellpaying 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 RoadInstead the man takes her to a brothel at Grant Road When she realises where she is the girl panics However she resists all attempts to force her into flesh trade The accused retaliate by locking her in a dark room and torturing her dailyThey couldnt break herThe girl quickly figured out what had happened and resisted all attempts to force her into prostitution In retaliation the brothel runners locked her in a dark room and tortured her for five days hoping to break her spirit But the girl never broke She bided her time until the wee hours of the fifth day on January 27 when she saw everyone sleeping and decided to make a break for freedom She managed to open the window in her room and found that she was on the first floor so she shimmied down a drainpipe and escaped to the roadShe refuses to give in and waits for a chance to escape On the fifth morning while everyone is sleeping she shimmies down a pipe from the firstfloor window and asks a taxi driver for help Luckily he speaks Bengali too He immediately takes her to the DB Marg police stationFirst stroke of luckShe 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 stationAn 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 35678 of the Prevention of Immoral Trafficking ActThe police also raided the brothel but by then the place had been abandoned 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 gangIn December last year a sex racket was busted in a posh locality in HyderabadThose arrested in the sex racket include an actress from Bollywood and another television actressCatch up on all the latest Mumbai news current affairs from Mumbai local news crime news and breaking headlines hereDownload the new midday Android and iOS apps to get updates on all the latest and trending stories on the go