Agra: More and more girls, some still infants, are being forced to become prostitutes in Agra, the city of the Taj Mahal.
The innocent girls, brought from other parts of northern India, are being allegedly injected with hormones to precipitate puberty. Hormone injections can lead to many health problems including cervical cancer, said Netra Pal Singh, counsellor at the All India Womens Conference.
The Agra police are determined to end it all and the senior superintendent of police, Dinesh Juneja, has launched an all-out war against prostitution in the city.
The police have been conducting raids and have rescued about 20 girls between 2 and 15 years of age this month from the Basai red light zone.
Another three were rescued from the house of a middleman engaged in women trafficking recently. Police say the girls were to be sold to some clients in Mumbai.
In another raid, three girls, including a two-year-old, were rescued and five women and nine men were held on charges of trapping them in the flesh trade.
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