Prostitution: Authorities in India rescue 20-year-old Nigerian woman

A 20-year-old Nigerian woman who was trafficked to India from Nigeria has been rescued by Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) along with the city police and NGO Shakti Vahini.

This was made known in a statement issued by the commission that a woman was trafficked to Delhi on October 24 on a tourist visa with the promise of a job.

The statement disclosed that the captives took away the passport of the victim and later forced her into prostitution.

The victim who is yet to be identified managed to send her brother to her location in West Delhi's Talak Nagar. Her brother then contacted the NGO.

A team of the commission, along with Delhi Police and the NGO, raided the place in Tilak Nagar and rescued the woman.

The woman told police that there were many other women in captivity of the traffickers, who were enticed away from African countries with the promise of lucrative jobs and forced into sex work, the statement said.

The DCW commission has issued a notice to city police and has sought an action taken report in the matter, and sought a copy of FIR along with details of people arrested, the statement said.

In her statement, DCW chief Swati Maliwal stated that the commission has also sought details of efforts made by police to recover other women.

"We received the complaint of a Nigerian woman being kept captive by traffickers. Our team immediately contacted Delhi Police and rescued her. We receive many cases of foreign nationals being trafficked in Delhi," she said.

"Recently, a case regarding trafficking of Uzbek women was also received in the commission. The Delhi Police should conduct a thorough investigation of these international rackets and arrest the kingpins. These rackets must be busted in order to save the lives of thousands of women being forced into commercial sexual exploitation and bonded labour by the traffickers."



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