Railway Colony A New Hub For Sex Workers

Afternoon Voice

Mumbai, 31st Dec:- Mumbai Police is busy finding four Let members who are hiding somewhere in Mumbai and planning for next attack. Whether they are staying in a hotel room or they are living somewhere on rent no one knows yet. What AV has found that there is a loop-hole in Central Mumbai, anyone can ask easily for a room without proper identification and can stay in the heart of Mumbai in front of Mumbai Central bridge as much day as he likes. Just pay them what they want even if someone is an illegal immigrant or a niger or a terrorist as well, they will wont ask for any identification at all. And the worst part of it is no one will be suspicious on you for a moment, also there are no chances at all for a surprise police raid because it’s a Railway Colony located in front of Mumbai Central Station. 

Yes for last 8 years rooms for Railways Colony, Cement Chawl 61,62,67 are been given on rent for a minimum amount of Rs3,500-Rs5,000 a month to Bargirls, Sex-Workers, Nigers, Gangsters and many more. Illegal immigrant’s from Nepal and many other countries live in this Government Railway Colony which is located in a prime location of Mumbai Central next to Great Eastern Royal Appartment as informed to AV by a resident of Nagpada on the condition of anonymity . Around 72 residents stay in these 3 colonies of G+2 out of which only 22 are working in Railway Deparments rest of all are Bar Dancers from grant road and Mumbai Central, illegal immigrants from different countries and Sex Workers sharing these rooms at a very lower prices to earn their living in Mumbai. Also its has become a guest room for the newly employed sex-workers who are brought to Mumbai on the basis of big lie of providing them Job in Mumbai, after which they are indulged into sexual activities forcefully in the same premises which they called is a probation period.

Though head of these 22 families work in western railway as a labour, maitanence staff and pune who are not educated enough to raise their voice and were annoyed with the condition In they live everyday and had approached AV for help on basis of annonymity. Also they are afraid of a ward boy of Jagjivan Ram hospital Sanjay Anand Moore (35), who has several police cases on him including an attempt to rape. Sanjay who is their neighbour as well as a railway employee of a railway hospital lives there from last 25 years. Sanjay who is a caretaker of these 50 rooms of railway employees which has been allotted to them and gets more than 1lakh Rs a month with the help of railway officers of higher rank for last eight years alleges the residents of chawl 61, 62 and 67. The residents don’ t know whom to approach whom to complaint and on the other side they are afraid of complaining these things to the Police as well. "Sanjay who has informer’s in the police department as well if we will complaint about him he will come to know and will beat us to death" say’s a resident (name witheld) also the resident added that "Railway Police Staff and Tardeo Police including get their commission to run such a big business of mass exploitation".

“We always see under-age girls are been brought in our colony and kept for several days in a room locked from outside and we see everyday different customers entering these rooms” said a wife of a labour also she added that “many time’s we have seen some weird faces who don’t look like Indian nor do they look like Nepali, who are they from where they have come across we cant complaint about it as we breathe everyday in fear".

When AV informed ACP Raja Tambat of Tardeo Police Station about this he said "we have never come across with any written complaint's against all these issues and said will verify soon and will take appropriate action against it"

Though its a Railway Premises and to maintain it is the responsibility of RPF for which we contacted Chief Public Relation Officer of Western Railway Sharat Chandrayan first who was shocked to know about these details and said "we will inquire this issue and will take action to vacate the premises as soon as possilble, and if needed will take the help of Police as well"