Shortly before midnight on a sunday,I met Fatima(name changed).Fatima,a 30-year-old,dressed in a blue saree told me,"I’m here to say you something."The she narrated how she and other girls from Bangladesh were forced to work as prostitutes in brothels.
Three summers ago,Fatima along with several others Banglaseshi nationals travelled across one of porous border of Bengal and caught a night train to Sealdah.In Sealdah area they were lured by some men by offering decent jobs.After that they travelled with them to a nearby place.But later Fatima found her ina brothel room.
The number of women in red light areas in India is ncreasing day by day.In red light areas of Mumbai their number is nearly 5,000,20 percent of 25,000 sex workers,while even 20 years ago there was hardly any Bangladeshi girl in brothels in Mumbai.
Recently,I visited the border areas of West Bengal where Bangladeshi girls from poor families being brought in as sex-workers. Here, I found a girl from a very poor family in Rangpur district of bangladesh and had been brought to a brothel in Calcutta by a man named Motiul to work as a sex workers.But, she somehow managed to flee.