The Secunderabad railway station has become a hub of flesh trade in the city. According to a survey conducted by the Government Railway Police (GRP), 300 persons survive on flesh trade in and around the busy railway station.
These details came to light when GRP superintendent M Kanta Rao asked his men to conduct a survey on commercial sex workers on the station premises.
Realising that flesh trade is thriving on the railway station, the SP decided to conduct a surprise check on Monday morning.
Within two hours, the railway police managed to identify and apprehend 20 sex workers operating from the station.
“The rescued will be sent to government state home for counselling and rehabilitation,” Kanta Rao said.
He said that they would soon organise a programme with women and child welfare department officials to counsel and rehabilitate the victims who are trapped in the trade and operating from railway stations in the city.
During the searches on Monday, police have also arrested a sex worker-turned-con artiste, who committed several thefts on trains in the South Central Railway jurisdiction.
Mahalakshmi committed two suitcase thefts on Gouthami Express by travelling from Rajahmundry to Secunderabad as a passenger. Police recovered Rs one lakh worth stolen property from her possession and remanded the woman to judicial custody.
—Courtesy:TOI