India / Delhi sex racket uzbekistan seven foreigners went through hell girls story who escaped from trafficking

New Delhi : There is news of foreign girls being brought in the capital Delhi on the pretext of jobs. Not only this, here they are being kept as sex slaves. Not only this, here they are made to prostitution, if they refuse, then they are beaten up for refusing. According to a report in Times of India, Rahima (name changed) came to India on a tourist visa in April 2019 in search of work. Middlemen who brought him from Uzbekistan snatched his passport and belongings and locked him in a room in a flat in south Delhi.

Without a passport, this 26-year-old girl had no option but to obey the middlemen. The middlemen asked her to fulfill the sexual needs of the men coming to the flat. Rahima said that the customer was beaten up when she refused or tried to run away. Rahima said, 'We were not given any money. It was more difficult for us as we did not know the local language. She is among the seven girls who managed to escape from that hell to reach the Uzbekistan Embassy in Chanakyapuri. However, she could not enter the embassy premises as she did not have any valid identity document.

But the women were lucky and were saved by Empowering Humanity NGO. At the same time, Delhi Police registered a case at Chanakyapuri police station on Monday under several sections including kidnapping, smuggling, criminal conspiracy, extortion. Along with this, the police have arrested five people, exposing the international racket.

All the victims except one have children back home. Most of the women said that they got married at an early age. They had children and their husband had abandoned them.

A woman told that at the age of 17, she was brought in October 2019. A woman is 30 years old and has a child with a hole in her heart. Another girl, 22, had come to the city in January this year.

Rahima also has a child. After her husband left, she was looking for a job and got an offer from Delhi. She had come to the city on a tourist visa. But later she was taken to a place whose name she does not know. He said, 'The door of my room was always closed. We were not allowed to go out. If we used to go, the brokers used to live together. They used to give us drugs and forced them to refuse. Some customers even gave him drugs. That was the time when 10 men used to have sex.

The women rescued by Empowering Humanity NGO helped to register a case with the police. The FIR states that the women were smuggled into India. They were given tourist visas in Nepal and some of them came to India on medical visas at different times. She was stripped of her visa and brought to New Delhi and forced to become a prostitute. Some of the women said that they had come directly to India on medical or other visas and that their travel documents and passports were taken from them as soon as they arrived.

In July, the Anti-Human Trafficking Unit of the Delhi Police arrested nearly a dozen people, including women and foreign nationals, for illegally bringing Uzbek women to India. Along with this, the police had also rescued 11 women, who are currently in the detention center. They do not have travel documents. An investigating officer said the women claimed they were offered employment in India, but were forced into prostitution upon arrival.

A police officer said, “We are taking information from the Foreigners Registration Office to determine who had come on a valid visa and who was brought to India through smuggling. The investigation of the case is still going on and many more people are likely to be arrested. Many people can be involved in this racket to bring women from Uzbekistan to Delhi. Many documents have been found during the raid and we are also looking for some women.