BPO jobs, a flesh trade bait
Following the emergence of Mumbai as one of the hubs for call centre jobs in the country over the last few years, Bollywood dreams seems to have taken a backseat and
jobs in call centres are being used to lure unsuspecting girls into prostitution.
Officials of the social service branch (SSB) spotted this trend while investigating the latest methods employed by flesh trade racketeers in their bid to lure fresh victims into the trade.
“A majority of the girls we rescued were found to have been brought to Mumbai after being promised well-paying jobs in call centres,” said Vasant Dhobale, assistant commissioner of police, SSB.
In 2011, the SSB rescued a total of 614 girls in raids on brothels and bars, and till March this year, 232 girls have already been rescued.
The flesh trade racket in Mumbai has its tentacles in various states in India, and their contacts in these states routinely approach young girls from poverty-stricken homes, promising them jobs in call centers.
Till around five to seven years earlier, girls would be lured to Mumbai with the promise of successful careers in the film industry. These girls would be made to wait for the “right opportunity” till they ran out of money, after which they would be made to sleep with “established figures in the film industry”, which would be the beginning of a forced life of prostitution, SSB officials said.
Mr Dhobale said that promises of acting careers were not made to girls anymore.
For the less educated girls, jobs in the garments industry, as well as other small-scale industries were common lures.
The pimps play on the poverty of the girls, due to which the girls are willing to go to a strange city with the hope of earning good money.
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