Sitting amid the blackened remains of his home, 32-year-old Nikesh Gawali carefully broke open a half-melted plastic box with a screwdriver. His hands shook slightly, not out of fear, but out of hope. “I’m trying to find my daughter Aarti’s gold earrings,” he said quietly, still focused on the box. “She’s just five. I got them made recently after months of labour work.” The plastic box, warped and blackened by heat, was one of the few things left from his two-room house on the outskirts of Dhamangaon village . All around him lay ash, broken tin sheets and charred wooden beams. The walls had cracked under the heat and the front room’s tin roof had caved in completely. What remained was a blackened debris all around - almost nothing to suggest a home once stood there. Nikesh earns his living as an agricultural labourer, like many in the village. Work is uncertain and depends on the season. Those earrings weren’t just jewellery - they were a small dream, a reward for his hard work,...
On 12 - 08 - 2021
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| DCP (Zone III) Lohit Matani instructing police staff before the action. |
Notorious red-light area Ganga Jamuna in East Nagpur was sealed by the City police on Wednesday. Commissioner of Police (CP) Amitesh Kumar imposed Section 144 Code of Criminal Procedure in the area after which movement of other persons would be restricted here. Layers of barricades were laid out at both ends of 12 lanes of the area and a posse of 100 police personnel deployed round the clock for the bandobast.
The police are also using drones to keep en eagle eye on the internal movement in the lanes of the area. CP Amitesh Kumar said that the action was initiated after receiving a number of complaints by the residents. The prostitution rackets have spoiled the social atmosphere so much that even the relatives of citizens refrained from coming to their homes. Even young son/daughter of families living near the area do not get married easily, the CP said, adding that young girls are being forced in the prostitution.
After sealing the lanes, the women police personnel would conduct searches in the houses to rescue minor girls. Despite having two temples, a dargah, a mosque and three schools, the flesh trade has been going on here for a long time. More than 150 sex rackets are operating in the rooms of different buildings and around 500 to 700 women are active in the business. Most of these women are from Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Orissa, said the CP.
Similarly, the police will request the State Excise Department to cancel licenses of four liquor shops including a beer bar operating here for the last several years. Before initiating the action, the CP visited the place in plain clothes and observed gross violation of Covid protocol by the women. The police have secretly done video recording of the area and found that women are making obscene gestures to the people passing from the adjacent roads.
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