PANJIM: The three girls from Mizoram, who were rescued by the Crime branch team on Saturday, have revealed to the police that they were being asked to do sexual favours for customers at the beauty parlour in Porvorim and when they refused they were beaten up by the owner.
The three girls, one of them a minor, were trafficked into Goa with a promise to work in Lotus beauty parlour. "They are school drop-outs and were contacted by a local lady, who informed them that there is job for girls to work in beauty parlour in Goa. Though they are not trained beauticians, they were told that they will be given training in Goa," said sources.
They arrived in Goa less than a month back. "At first things were okay. But later, they were forced to given in to the sexual favours sought by customers. The customers, mostly male tourists, would ask for a complete body massage and pay ` 7,000 at the counter. They were then taken to a small cabin where the girls were asked to massage the naked men for almost two hours. They had to also give in to the sexual favours sought by the customers. If they refused and the customers complained, then the girls were beaten up," the girls have revealed in their statement to the police.
The girls told the police that they were again beaten on October 2, and its then that the three of them got together and planned to escape. Accordingly on October 4 they got an opportunity to escape when they were being taken from the parlour to the flat in which they were lodged in Porvorim. They then contacted their relatives in Mizoram and spilled the beans.
A police complaint was lodged in Mizoram and the Mizoram police along with a local NGO contacted Goa based NGO ARZ with detailed information and FIR copy. ARZ on Saturday submitted the same to the police, who raided the beauty parlour premises and rescued 11 girls who were trafficked into Goa to work in the parlour.
Police have arrested Shanta alias Laxmi Mishra, the owner of the parlour, along with four men for trafficking the girls to Goa for prostitution. They have been remanded to 7 days police custody. Another three of Mishra`s associates have been arrested by Mizoram police in a raid on Saturday.
Incidentally, after going through the documents, police learnt that though Mishra ran a massage parlour in the beauty salon, she had permission only to run a beauty parlour and haircutting salon under the Shops and Establishments Act, said sources. Police are now investigating whether the girls were being taken out in the coastal belt for. (TOI)
This controversy was when Raposo arrested the girls and the same Mishra was crying foul. Some sincere police officers were questioned but why now they have to act according to Mizoram police's whims?
ReplyDeleteTwo years back, I called on one of the police officer informing him that girls from Thailand are landing in Goa with certificates of Beauty Technicians, the address was provided as Calangute, Cobravaddo as I found on them on airport in Bombay. They were in the same flight as me and I happened to do a Sherlock Holmes. The officer in question asked me if they are "borim assat tim?" (Are they good enough?) I shut my phone in shame and knew the racket that all are involved. As I reached Goa, the next day, I enquired to what happened and I was told that they do not know anything. This is Goa and the GUA Police. I hold my head in shame.
Unless there is pressure from above these girls will be lured in to Goa. The law turns a blind eye because some of them are share holders of these parlours . Dalia do you think these guys care if the women are beautiful? to them is "cover the face fire the base". She She Baba She.
ReplyDeleteThis is what our people want... this so called’.tourism’...and all the ills: Drugs, prostitution, pedophiles, thugs, lewd behavior, russkies robbing our land, non-Goans, rich indians robbing our land, criminals robbing our homes of our gold, temples and churchs robbed, increase in rapes, our young people involved in rapes (and drugs) including a Minister of Education’s son, gambling Casinos…all the writing is on the wall again and again!!!!…...all in the name of this ‘tourism’!!!! We even had a very fitting ex-minister of tourism to represent this industry....with alleged money laundering bussiness exploiting our young people. People of Goa, is this what you all want??????? Don’t shed tears afterwards…. Keep it up.....Goa is being destroyed day by day. And please don’t tell me about jobs being created, our people don’t want to do these low paying jobs….all outsiders are moving to Goa for these jobs. Keep selling Goa……we are losing our beautiful and ONLY home. Please look in your heart and do the right thing! No use calling yourself a pious religious person if you not honest about the destruction of our Goa! Sorry, I am getting tired, as everyone cries afterwards when they doing it to themselves! Keep electing chors and uneducated illiterates!!!!Please WAKE UP!
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