Pune Sex Worker

Here's something to boost your faith in humanity. Remember mid-day's front-page report on a sex worker rescued from Pune, who had written a letter to the PM, requesting help in converting her Rs 10,000 in old currency notes to the new ones? Many do, as financial help has been pouring in for the Bangladeshi national.

The woman, who was sold to a brothel in Pune for Rs 50,000, was in a rescue home for the last seven months, and hence missed out on the demonetisation deadline

Taking moral policing up several notches, a first-time woman corporator elected of a Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) ticket has decided to 'discipline' sex workers by erecting a flex board in Mandai - the city's oldest vegetable market. The board erected on a pole in the market warns Commercial Sex Workers (CSWs) against soliciting clients at the ...

Pune, engineering college, sex workers, dandiya

At a time when education is becoming big business, here's an example of a university that believes in taking learning to the masses and not differentiating between its students. In a bid to rehabilitate and empower marginalised sections of society like sex workers and transgenders, the Nashik-based Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University (YC...

An HIV positive sex worker, sentenced to seven years imprisonment for running a brothel in Pune and procuring girls for prostitution, has been granted bail by the Supreme Court on humanitarian ground.A bench of Justices HS Bedi and CK Prasad released the HIV positive sex worker on bail for six months on a plea made by her counsel Gurdeep Singh, who...

Thirty-nine minors were huddled in two small rooms at the dilapidated Mundhwa remand home in Pune. Dark and dingy, the premises did not have any security guards, as a visit to the establishment revealed.

As many as 65 minors were rescued in Pune, but not before they tried everything from hiding in cupboards to stripping to escape cops. Sub-Inspector Indira stood rooted to the spot, red-faced as a nude 12-year-old girl challenged her: "Now see if you can take me away," she said.

Here's something to boost your faith in humanity. Remember mid-day's front-page report on a sex worker rescued from Pune, who had written a letter to the PM, requesting help in converting her Rs 10,000 in old currency notes to the new ones? Many do, as financial help has been pouring in for the Bangladeshi national.

The woman, who was sold to a brothel in Pune for Rs 50,000, was in a rescue home for the last seven months, and hence missed out on the demonetisation deadline

Taking moral policing up several notches, a first-time woman corporator elected of a Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) ticket has decided to 'discipline' sex workers by erecting a flex board in Mandai - the city's oldest vegetable market. The board erected on a pole in the market warns Commercial Sex Workers (CSWs) against soliciting clients at the ...

Pune, engineering college, sex workers, dandiya

At a time when education is becoming big business, here's an example of a university that believes in taking learning to the masses and not differentiating between its students. In a bid to rehabilitate and empower marginalised sections of society like sex workers and transgenders, the Nashik-based Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University (YC...

An HIV positive sex worker, sentenced to seven years imprisonment for running a brothel in Pune and procuring girls for prostitution, has been granted bail by the Supreme Court on humanitarian ground.A bench of Justices HS Bedi and CK Prasad released the HIV positive sex worker on bail for six months on a plea made by her counsel Gurdeep Singh, who...

Thirty-nine minors were huddled in two small rooms at the dilapidated Mundhwa remand home in Pune. Dark and dingy, the premises did not have any security guards, as a visit to the establishment revealed.

As many as 65 minors were rescued in Pune, but not before they tried everything from hiding in cupboards to stripping to escape cops. Sub-Inspector Indira stood rooted to the spot, red-faced as a nude 12-year-old girl challenged her: "Now see if you can take me away," she said.