Mother & Baby Rescued from Red-Light Area, Ganga Jamuna, Nagpur

Kaushalya & her baby (right) after their rescue

In May 2026, our team received information about two minor girls being sexually exploited in the red-light area, Ganga Jamuna, in Nagpur. After verifying the information, our team and the police attempted a rescue on June 8. Unfortunately, the information was leaked, and the victims were moved to another location, so the rescue could not be carried out. 

Our team did not give up. The investigators continued to monitor the area. Each time they received information about the victim and attempted to engage with her, she was quickly relocated.

On June 26, our team received information that the victim was back in Ganga Jamuna. 

The following day we confirmed that the victim was at the brothel.

On June 29, our liaison officer visited the Deputy Commissioner of Police to seek support for the rescue. The Deputy Commissioner was unavailable, so our team met with a Police Inspector instead. We shared the case details and requested police assistance. The Police Inspector explained that their rescue team was working on another case in Odisha and would be back the next day. He asked us to return the following day to plan a rescue.

On June 30, the Police Inspector and our team discussed a rescue strategy and initially planned a raid for July 1. However, since the Inspector had been on duty for 36 hours already, he was unsure if the operation could take place so soon. The rescue was pushed to July 2.

On July 2, the police and our team proceeded to the brothel.  

At 9:45 a.m., after confirming that the victim was present at the location, the police raided the brothel. The police and our team rescued the victim, Kaushalya, who appeared to be between 17-18 years old. (Her records later showed that she was a major.) Kaushalya's six-month-old baby was with her in the brothel. Our team rescued both mother and child.

We accompanied Kaushalya to the police station, where the police completed the necessary documentation and recorded statements in the presence of independent witnesses.

When the police asked Kaushalya who ran the brothel, she shared that she was forced to attend to customers and hand over the money to the brothel keeper, Muni. Muni was not present at the brothel during the rescue operation. 

After the initial procedures were completed, our team accompanied Kaushalya to another police station, where she recorded her statement. A First Information Report (FIR) was registered under sections of the Prevention of Immoral Trafficking Act and sections of India's criminal procedure law, known as the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS).

Kaushalya was then taken to a government hospital to attend mandatory medical tests. After her tests, we accompanied Kaushalya and her six-month-old daughter to a protective home where both mother and daughter remain safe.

Kaushalya shares her story