-------------------------------------------------------- Do GOACAN a favour, circulate this email to your family members, relatives, neighbours and friends. Help others be BETTER INFORMED ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- Documented by Goa Desc Resource Centre (GDRC) Email: [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- Sex rackets thriving in massage parlours ---------------------------------------- Massage parlours have of late attained notoriety for being centres of sex rackets. Such massage parlours seem to go unchecked mainly due to the blessings from some influential persons and the cops.
The fact that even the cops are hand in gloves with the perpetrators of the sex crime came to light when the deputy superintendent of police, Mr Sammy Tavares, and police inspector, Mr Manjunath Dessai, along with a team of Mapusa police raided a beauty parlour cum massage parlour in Morod. Here it was revealed that this racket was going on for a long time with senior police officials being 'aware' of it and still turning the other way. It was only at the behest of Mr Tavares and Mr Dessai and the assistance given by other police officials that the racket could be cracked. Sex rackets thriving under the guise of massage parlours is not a new thing. Such massage parlours are thriving in coastal villages.Last year locals from Anjuna had protested against the rising number of massage parlours and it was alleged that under the guise of these massage parlours, the flesh trade was flourishing. 'Yahaan sab kuch milta hai' was what the 'agents' of such massage parlours were going on telling the tourists who were landing in Anjuna. Realising the gravity of the situation, the locals proposed a resolution at last year's gram sabha that no more massage parlours should be permitted in Anjuna, as this was ruining the culture of Anjuna. These massage parlours are now seen 'legally' mushrooming in cities but carrying out 'illegal' trade inside their premises. In the first place it is very easy to obtain permission and licence for a massage parlour.Once a licence and permission is obtained for setting up a beauty parlour and massage parlour, the stage is set for the beginning of a sex racket. It may be recalled that just last week, the Mapusa police had nabbed two 'agents' who were taking a sex worker to a customer. Close on the heels of this, the Mapusa police managed to lay their hands on the beauty parlour and crack down on the sex trade that was going on there. The police not only held all those found there but even seized large amounts of cash and condoms. Surprisingly, it is learnt that the accused had even advertised for new girls to work in her parlour. Police claim that while each massage ranges from Rs 1000 upwards, the girls working there are brought from different places and paid Rs 5000 a month, besides they also receive 'tips' based on the customer's satisfaction. While the accused has provided a fictitious name and address to the police it has been learnt by the police in the course of interrogation that the family members of the accused were not aware of the situation. The licence for this beauty and massage parlour had also expired in March and it is surprising how this parlour continued to operate. -------------------------------------- The Navhind Times 23/4/09 page 02 -------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ GOA CIVIC AND CONSUMER ACTION NETWORK ----------------------------------------------------------- promoting civic and consumer rights in Goa ----------------------------------------------------------- GOACAN Post Box 187 Margao, Goa 403 601 GOACAN Post Box 78 Mapusa, Goa 403 507 mailto: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ This message comes via the Google Groups "Saligao-Net" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/saligao-net?hl=en Please post regularly to keep the e-village active! -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
