Please go through 'Health Club/Physical Fitness' under the link The Times of India and 'Health & Physical Fitness' under the link Hindustan Times before going through this page.
Both The Times of India and Hindustan Times are really courageous newspapers. They have guts to publish news reports about these brothels advertised in their own classified ad columns. Many reports have appeared in TOI/HT about male brothels of Delhi. Such reports clearly mention that the brothels run through newspaper advertisements. However they never give their own name in their news reports and for good reason.
In last week of April 2004/first week of May, 2004 there was a report in Hindustan (Hindi Daily associated to Hindustan Times) about unearthing of a sex scandal run by 'Chahat Friendship Network' by Delhi Police which was actually a prostitution centre running through newspaper ads. Both Hindustan Times and Hindustan used to regularly publish the ads of 'Chahat Friendship Network'. Now the ads of other friendship networks are continuing in these papers as usual.
Hindustan published a boxed news report on top of page 2 on 13.5.04 about Delhi Police unearthing a male brothel run by a boy named Ankit Dheer and they published all these ads also on 13.5.04 as usual. In the news report they talked of 'Samajik Patan' over calling boys for group sex by couples. The reality is that they have been openly publishing regular ads for group sex in the name of friendship. On 16.5.04 Hindustan Times published the same report.
Gigolos & sex in the city The Hindustan Times, May 16, 2004 By Archit Mohan Ankit (Dheer) entered the trade (prostitution) in his late teens... His customers range from lonely middle-aged women to influential business-men and executives... Ankit was arrested on May 7... Prostitution is big in Delhi, and male prostitution is getting bigger. Sunny is another escort (read male prostitute). .."Gigolos don't cater only to women. Many of us have both men and women customers, in fact, mostly men," says Sunny. Newspaper classifieds are full of massage services for men by men and for women by men. Even the men are no more scared of making their homosexual inclination public... HT spoke to a few of Sunny's clients... Classifieds of which newspaper? Your own? |
Years ago (i.e. on 27/11/1999) Hindustan Times published a detailed report about male brothels running in Delhi.
HT published a report on 27/11/1999 about male brothels running in Delhi where boys are available 24 hours to homosexuals for sex. HT's correspondent (Akash Arora) himself visits such a brothel and spends one hour with a gay prostitute who strips completely before him. In the report, the prostitute informs the correspondent that there are more than 50 such brothels running in Delhi in the name of massage parlours. Both active and passive prostitutes are available at such brothels. Active is called 'top' and passive is called 'bottom'. The report states that such brothels get enough customers and most of them are rich, educated and famous including industrialists, businessmen, high-ranking police officials, bureaucrats and even ministers. They also get foreign customers especially Americans. The hourly charges for a gay prostitute vary between Rs. 200 to Rs. 6000 depending on his looks. A prostitute with good physique and manly looks earns more. The brothels also supply boys to their customers at their homes/hotels at extra charge. The report has hidden the name of The Times of India which publishes the ads of these brothels and refers to it only as 'a leading daily'. It has also distorted the name of the column under which TOI publishes these ads and refers to it as 'massage' column. There is no such column in TOI. The name of the column is 'Health Club/Physical Fitness'. Chor chor mausere bhai! |
Of late, both TOI and HT have started publishing ads for female prostitution also under the columns 'Health Club/Physical Fitness' and 'Health & Physical Fitness' respectively which were originally designed specifically for male homosexuals. And why shouldn't they? When they can get brisk business from homosexuals which are only 10% of the population, there is no reason for not trying to tap the remaining 90% market potential. Why does one publish a newspaper, after all? Of course to make money! When everybody is making money, why shouldn't they too? Thieves do it, dacoits do it, murderers do it! There is every reason for them also to do it!
| 4 call girls held from massage parlour... The Times of India, July 8, 2004 ...They were arrested after a raid on a massage parlour which was actually being used to run a thriving prostitution racket... ...advertised in leading newspapers that... |
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| Bill plans to squeeze health centres The Times of India, July 10, 2004 By Pallavi Majumdar/TNN ...Recently the police have busted call girl rackets operating under the garb of massage parlours... |
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| Massage parlours or prostitution rackets The Times of India, July 15, 2004 By Sachin Parashar/TNN Police Have Identified 800 Such 'Dens' In City Why do we employ police? For identification of criminals? |
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| 12 women arrested for prostitution The Times of India, New Delhi August 24, 2004 Times News Network The crime branch has arrested 12 women for allegedly indulging in prostitution in the garb of running a beauty parlour... Rashtriya Sahara, New Delhi, 24 August, 2004 adds - Apradh shakha ke upayukta Tejendra Luthra ne bataya ki shakha ko ek akhbar men chhape vigyapan se kuchha aise beauty parlaron ke bare men pata chala jahan veshyavritti ka dhandha karaya jata tha... (DCP-Crime Tejendra Luthra told that they came to know about some beauty parlours where prostitution was going on from an ad published in a newspaper...) |
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Sex and the City: Thriving business called sleaze The Times of India, New Delhi Thursday, August 26, 2004 Times News Network ...said deputy commissioner of police (crime) Tajendra Luthra, adding that several massage parlours in the city are under the scanner for promoting prostitution... |
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Six girls arrested along with parlour owner Navbharat Times, New Delhi January 15, 2005 New Delhi. After raiding massage parlours situated in Lajpat Nagar and Rohini, the crime branch of Delhi police has arrested six girls along with the parlour owner. Prostitution was going on under the guise of massaging in both the parlours. According to the police, they used to advertise in the newspapers...The parlours are Zubin Beauty Parlour of Rohini sector-8 and Prerna Massage Parlour of Sant Nagar in Lajpat Nagar... (Translated from Hindi) |
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GK massage parlour raided, 4 women held Hindustan Times, New Delhi Saturday January 22, 2005 HT Correspondent New Delhi, January 21 THE DELHI Police on Thursday raided a beauty parlour in the Greater Kailash area for running a prostitution racket and arrested four women... Police said they are looking for the owner of the massage parlour Madan Chawla who runs two more such parlours in south Delhi. "Our team raided the Gravity Beauty Clinic running in the basement of E-597 Greater Kailash-II. We had information that a prostitution racket was being run under the guise of a beauty parlour from the shop," said DCP (Crime) Tajendra Luthra... |
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Flesh trade in beauty shops, one
arrested Hindustan Times, New Delhi Tuesday January 25, 2005 HT Correspondent New Delhi, January 24 DELHI POLICE on Sunday arrested a businessman (from his house in Ishwar Colony) for running a prostitution racket. Madan Chawla, who operates three beauty clinics and health clubs in south Delhi, was using these premises for flesh trade. Last week, police had raided 'Gravity Beauty Clinic' run by Chawla at Greater Kailash II, and arrested four prostitutes. Chawla, however, managed to escape. On Sunday, the Crime Branch raided two other health clubs run by him -- at E-13, Green Park and S-210, Panchsheel Park... |
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Friends club front for prostitution
racket; 2 held Hindustan Times, New Delhi Saturday January 29, 2005 HT Correspondent New Delhi, January 28 TWO PEOPLE have been arrested for running a prostitution racket in the guise of a friendship club at Vikas Marg. A decoy customer was sent to the Angel Friendship Club on 88 Vikas Marg, who paid Rs. 50,000 to become a member. Club manager Amit Malhotra allegedly arranged a meeting with some "friends" at a Connaught Place restaurant... Malhotra...solicited customers through newspaper advertisements...He would advertise in newspapers, promising men girlfriends... |
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Friendship club busted for flesh trade; 3 held in
week's second case Sunday Hindustan Times, New Delhi January 30, 2005 HT Correspondent New Delhi, January 29 TWO WOMEN and a man have been arrested for allegedly running a prostitution racket in the guise of a friendship club in Rohini. ...Police sent a decoy customer to Yuro Friendship Club in main market in Budh Vihar on Friday evening, where he came in contact with Rajiv Kumar, allegedly the racket's pimp. "The customer was offered a woman for Rs. 5000 for one night. A flat in Sector VI Rohini was also arranged," said police. The flat where the customer and the girl were taken belonged to a woman, who was also part of the same gang... ..."He (Rajiv) placed ads...and...lured people into this racket. The woman who offered her residence to the customer had contacted Rajiv through the newspaper," said DCP (Crime) Tajender Luthra. |
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Sex racket busted Hindustan Times, New Delhi Monday, February 7, 2005 HT Correspondent New Delhi, February 6 DELHI POLICE on Sunday arrested nine persons, including seven women, on charges of operating a prostitution racket in South Delhi. Based on a tip-off, an advertisement in a national daily, a team under the supervision of ACP (anti robbery cell), R. K. Puram raided a Sant Nagar house with the help of a decoy customer... Navbharat Times adds: DCP D. L. Kashyap told that a woman living in Sant Nagar area in South Delhi was running the racket through newspaper ads. |
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For a night out, call girl had a dollar rate Hindustan Times, New Delhi Friday February 11, 2005 HT Correspondent New Delhi, February 10 "This is a large and well organised prostitution racket. We had called up a mobile number advertised in a newspaper which promised to supply 'ultra modern exceptionally beautiful girl' to five star hotels," said DCP Tajendra Luthra. The advertisement had quoted rates in dollars and had mentioned three classes of women being sent as 'escorts'. |
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2 call girls and a pimp arrested Navbharat Times, New Delhi 26 February, 2005 New Delhi: THE CRIME Branch of the Delhi Police has arrested 2 call girls and their pimp...They were engaged in flesh trade in the garb of a massage parlour... (Translated from Hindi) |
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Flesh trade racket busted; woman, pimp
arrested Sunday Hindustan Times, New Delhi February 27, 2005 HT Correspondent New Delhi, February 26 THE CRIME Branch of the Delhi Police has busted a high-profile prostitution racket being run in south Delhi... The racket was being run under the cover of a massage parlour that used to place advertisements in newspapers... She (head of the gang) has a wide network of boys and girls working in the flesh trade. |
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Arrest of male prostitute unearths larger network The Times of India, New Delhi Friday April 15, 2005 Times News Network New Delhi: With the arrest of a male prostitute in Mahipalpur, the Delhi Police seem to have stumbled upon a larger countrywide network. The police point out that, as with other large prostitution rackets, the arrests could also lead to the uncovering of prostitution rings in different cities which work in unison and even "exchange stock" or prostitutes. "The accused, 20-year-old Ravinder, revealed during investigation that the gang he worked for had links in other metros and is particularly active in Delhi, Mumbai, and Ahmedabad. Numerous young boys and girls are on its regular rolls," said Tajendra Luthra, DCP, crime branch. According to police, the gang that Ravinder was a part of operated in the garb of a massage parlour. They offered young boys and girls up for 'service' and lured customers through advertisements in leading national dailies... The racket was unearthed after the police got a decoy customer to strike a deal with 'Sandra' a massage parlour listed in one of the national dailies... Here is the ad of Sandra:
This ad has been daily appearing in The Times of India for years without fail. It has appeared today also along with the above news item. You may believe it or not but it is true! |
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Four call girls arrested with their
chief in Vasant Vihar New Delhi, (Ka. San.): Delhi Police has unearthed 'Captain' gang running a sex racket in the garb of Massage Centre and Escort Service. The police has arrested four call girls including gang's chief from Vasant Vihar area in this high profile call girl racket running in the capital through newspaper ads at a time when they were making indecent gestures at a public place. South-West (vigilance) Delhi District Police has arrested Yogesh alias Ajai alias Harish who used to publish ads in newspapers in the name of Captain and Sam Massage Centre... (Translated from Hindi) |
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Prostitution racket busted Hindustan Times, New Delhi Monday, July 4, 2005 THE CRIME branch on Sunday busted a high-profile prostitution racket, which operated out of five-star hotels. Three call girls, including a pimp, Rajesh Yadav, were arrested. The kingpin of the racket is at large. The gang solicited customers over a mobile phone, the number published as that of two massage parlours - Marya and Kavyanjali - in advertisements in national dailies... |
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Prostitution racket Hindustan Times, New Delhi Tuesday, August 2, 2005 THE CRIME branch busted a prostitution racket on Monday after arresting two pimps and a prostitute. The racket was allegedly being run by Hitesh Aggarwal and Kamlesh Kumar They began the racket a year ago under the guise of a massage parlour.
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Sex racket busted Hindustan Times, New Delhi Wednesday, August 3, 2005 THE CRIME BRANCH on Monday busted a prostitution racket being run under cover of a beauty parlour in Lajpat Nagar. The brain behind the scam, Rahul, and three prostitutes were arrested from a parlour. According to the police, the customers were lured by offers of "special massage sessions".
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Senior Citizen arrested in prostitution racket Hindustan Times, New Delhi Friday, August 12, 2005 THE CRIME BRANCH on Thursday busted a prostitution racket run by a 71-year-old man in Sita Ram Bazar. Shiv Ram Gupta was arrested along with six women. The racket was being run in the garb of a massage parlour, 'Global Massage Parlour'. |
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The blue business Hindustan Times, New Delhi Sunday July 24, 2005 Shakti Sharma with Kshama Rao With the availability of spy cams X-rated movie makers are filling the markets. But is that all you need to make porn films? ...Finding actors for the production is a breeze if someone knows where to look. With massage parlours advertising their services on the Net and in print, getting good-looking people -- men as well as women -- at rates starting at Rs. 2,000 a day is not a problem... |
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Rape victims won't have to run around to file
complaints Hindustan Times, New Delhi Saturday January 22, 2005 HT Correspondent New Delhi, January 21 ...The (annual) report (of NCW, National commission for Women, on Delhi) expresses concern over the upsurge of massage parlours acting as sex dens... |
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End of innocence on GB Road Archis Mohan New Delhi, November 13 ..."The local police station is hand in glove with the brothel owners, and the cops fail to act when we give them information," says a worker from an NGO, which does not wish to be quoted--and neither does he want his organization named. |
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SHO incriminated on the basis of massage parlour diary New Delhi. …ACP P. P. Singh of crime branch got information that a call-girl racket was being run in a house in Arjun Nagar in the garb of a massage parlour. The police raided the house and arrested the brothel owner who was operating through ads in English newspapers along with five prostitutes and a pimp. A diary which contained the secret accounts of the brothel was also recovered. The entries in the diary included the names of SHO of local police station and several other police officers who were shown to have received payments from the brothel. The SHO has been incriminated. Intensive investigation of the matter is on. |
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The heavy weights of high crime Archis Mohan The pimp who got away ...Kanwaljit Singh is something of a legend. He is known as the 'king of pimps'. None, least of all the police, have been able to dethrone him for the past two decades...Singh is known to supply women to top politicians and bureaucrats, including senior Delhi Police officers. He also has good 'contacts' with television starlets and Bollywood actresses. His wife Puja allegedly helps him in the trade...Singh has a lot of property in Delhi, including a palatial house in Greater Kailash, and in neighbouring towns. He was arrested in 1997 and then in 2002. When he was arrested last, Singh startled the police by naming some of the country's most powerful men as his customers. Soon police phones started ringing and Singh was out of police custody in no time. Thursday April 21, 2005 Newspapers of today have published big reports indicating that Kanwaljit Singh has been arrested again. |
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| Six girls ... held for prostitution The Times of India, July 24, 2004 Times News Network ...the pimps used to advertise in leading English dailies offering round the clock massage services... And which are those leading English dailies? Aren't they The Times of India itself and Hindustan Times? How can one be so shameless? Think about it and you are at the end of your wits and loss of your vocabulary! |
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Four call girls held in south Delhi The Times of India, New Delhi Wednesday February 23, 2005 New Delhi: A special team of the crime branch has busted a prostitution racket being run from a guesthouse in Yusuf Sarai. Four women, along with their pimp and the manager of the guesthouse, have been arrested. The police officials said that the pimp, who belongs to Mumbai, had advertised his mobile number in the classified columns of national dailies in Delhi.(TNN) Nobody is asking which national dailies are these! Mera Bharat Mahaan!! |
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Two call girls arrested from Lajpat Nagar New Delhi. Delhi Police has arrested two call girls from Lajpat Nagar area. While investigating the matter, it was found that instead of publishing their ads in the newspapers, they used to contact their customers using mobile phone only... (Translated from Hindi) Wonderful! Prostitution through newspaper ads is a rule rather than the exception!! We have made really good progress in managing this country!!! |
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Prostitution in garb of Massage Parlour New Delhi. Crime branch has unearthed a prostitution racket running in the garb of Massage Parlour. Deputy Commissioner of Police Tejendra Luthra told that the anti-extortion cell had received information that a flesh trade was running through ads in various newspapers. The police accordingly made a phone call on a mobile number given in one of the ads and arrested two call girls and a pimp with the help of a decoy customer. (Translated from Hindi) But the question is why the police did not make phone calls on many other mobile numbers published with the adjacent ads! I really agree with you. Its incredible India!! |
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Sex racket unearthed, two arrested Jagaran Correspondent Alike Delhi and Mumbai, now one can get gigolos (male prostitutes) in Lucknow also. A special squad of IG Zone today arrested two youths for running a sex racket in the garb of a 'Friendship club' through newspaper ads. IG Zone Chhavi Nath Singh admitted that other such rackets must also be running in the city (but they will not be exposed since they have some consideration for us and we should, therefore, also consider them). He also said that the citizens should act on such ads with their conscience (since we cannot take action against the newspapers publishing such ads for good reasons). (Translated from Hindi) This disease of running brothels through newspaper ads by which The Times of India initially suffered in Delhi appears to have spread to all major newspapers in all big and small towns of this wonderful country! Shabash India!! Naamumkin Kuchh Bhi Nahin!!! (With apologies to Zee TV and Hussain Kuwajerwala) |
The business of these brothels which are numbered around 200 is running as usual and their ads are appearing regularly in The Times of India and Hindustan Times. Delhi Police has an understanding with these papers and brothel owners. The commissioner of Delhi Police is regularly getting his monthly alms from TOI and HT. He catches only those brothels with whom he fails to reach a mutually agreeable commission to be received by him. So far Delhi Police has caught only a few selected brothels and ignored all others. Why? Of what use is our police when both crime ads and crime reports are openly published in newspapers and the police still cannot catch the culprits?
The nexus between Delhi Police, The Times of India/Hindustan Times and male/female brothels of Delhi will continue. Normally the media of a country reports the crimes, but when it is itself involved in the crime, there is nobody who can save the country from going to the dogs.
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We call for:
1. Raiding of all these brothels, arrest and prosecution of their owners and all
the gay prostitutes/pimps working in these brothels, and the news about that
prosecution broadcast/telecast over Akashvani and Doordarshan.
2. Termination of all the police officers in whose areas the above brothels are
running.
3. Resignation of Police Commissioner of Delhi.
4. An explanation from the Home Minister, Chief Minister and Lieutenant Governor of Delhi.
5. Arrest of all the booking clerks, key-punch operators and all those employees
of TOI/HT who have been working for putting these ads to print.
6. Arrest and prosecution of the publishers and editors of TOI/HT aiming at
their life imprisonment and attaching all their movable/immovable property.
7. Investigation as to how long TOI/HT have been publishing these ads and how
much money they have minted in this way. All this money along with an equal
amount of fine to be recovered from them.
8. Resignation of the Cabinet Minister for Information & Broadcasting.
9. Stopping of the publication of TOI/HT/Hindustan.
YOU MIGHT HAVE SEEN TV PROGRAMMES ON SOME CABLE TV NEWS CHANNELS ON MALE PROSTITUTION IN DELHI. ONE OF THESE PROGRAMMES WAS NAMED AS "GORE GORE YE BANKE CHHORE". ANOTHER SHORT TV NEWS PROGRAM WAS ALSO SHOWN RECENTLY BY A PRIVATE TV NEWS CHANNEL. IN THIS PROGRAM THEY SHOWED THE PHOTO OF A PAGE OF THE TIMES OF INDIA/HINDUSTAN TIMES ON WHICH SUCH ADS WERE PRINTED. BUT THE PAGE WAS SHOWN FOR LESS THAN ONE-TENTH OF A SECOND SO THAT NOBODY CAN RECOGNIZE THE TIMES OF INDIA/HINDUSTAN TIMES.
THESE PROGRAMMES HAVE BEEN MADE WITH THE INFORMATION WHICH WE SUPPLIED TO THESE TV CHANNELS. BUT THEY HAVE NEITHER MADE ANY REFERENCE TO US NOR TO THE TIMES OF INDIA/HINDUSTAN TIMES. THE ELECTRONIC MEDIA IS UNABLE TO CONTROL ITS TEMPTATION TO REPORT SUCH A SENSATIONAL MATTER BUT SIMULTANEOUSLY UNHOLY MEDIA ALLIANCE IS HOLDING THEM BACK. THEY ARE SHOWING ONLY GLIMPSES AND NOT THE COMPLETE TRUTH.
THE JOB OF A NEWSPAPER IS TO REPORT A CRIME AND NOT ITSELF COMMIT A CRIME. THE FENCE HAS EATEN THE FIELD. INDIAN MEDIA, BOTH PRINT AND ELECTRONIC, IS BEHAVING AS A GANG OF CRIMINALS. NONE OF THEM LISTENED TO US. NO CRIME REPORTING TV SERIALS SUCH AS 'CRIME-FILE', 'POLKHOL', 'RED ALERT' ETC. SHOWED IT.
WE HAVE EXHAUSTED ALL MEANS OF BRINGING THIS CRIME TO LIGHT ON THIS EARTH. DELHI POLICE, DELHI GOVERNMENT, CENTRAL GOVERNMENT, JUDICIARY, PRINT MEDIA, ELECTRONIC MEDIA, POLITICAL PARTIES, M.P.'S ALL ARE UNRESPONSIVE.
WE HAVE TO THINK: IS MEDIA ABOVE THE LAW AND IS IT SUPREME? IT APPEARS SO FROM THE UNHOLY UNITY WHICH IT HAS EXHIBITED IN THIS MATTER. INDIA HAS TAKEN TO TASK EVEN THE MOST POWERFUL PERSONS FOR THEIR CRIME. EX-PRIME MINISTER P. V. NARSIMHA RAO HAD TO FACE TRIAL. EVEN INDIRA GANDHI HAD TO GO TO JAIL. LALOO YADAV AND JAYALALITA ALSO FACED IT. THERE ARE MANY SUCH EXAMPLES. BUT MEDIA APPEARS TO BE ABOVE EVERYTHING. IT CAN DO ANYTHING IT WANTS. NOBODY CAN CATCH THEM. IT HAS BEEN PROVED.
DEAR VISITOR, NOW YOU ONLY CAN SAVE THE HONOUR OF THIS COUNTRY. LET THE MATTER SPREAD BY WORD OF MOUTH. KINDLY TELL ALL YOUR RELATIVES, FRIENDS, NEIGHBOURS, COLLEAGUES AND EVERYBODY ELSE ABOUT IT. FOR THOSE OF YOUR FRIENDS WHO DO NOT USE INTERNET, TAKE A PRINT OUT.
IF YOU ARE ASSOCIATED WITH A POLITICAL PARTY OR ANY IMPORTANT ORGANIZATION, PLEASE TAKE UP THE ISSUE. FILE A PIL, IF POSSIBLE, IN A COURT OF LAW.
IF YOU ARE ABLE TO HELP US IN ANY WAY ABOUT SPREADING A WORD ABOUT THIS CRIME KINDLY LEAVE A MESSAGE ON OUR GUEST BOOK. WE ARE DESPERATELY LOOKING FORWARD FOR YOUR HELP, SUGGESTIONS AND GUIDANCE IN THIS MATTER
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US has asked India to control prostitution which is very rampant in India otherwise they will have to vote against being given loans to India from International Financial Institutions like the World Bank, International Monetary Fund and Asian Development Bank. In this reference Mr. David C. Mulford, US Ambassador to India had a meeting with Indian Home Minister Mr. Shivraj Patil some time ago and he discussed India's position in curbing trafficking under the US's Victims of Trafficking and Violence Act with Mr. Patil. |
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India on US watch list for human trafficking Sunday Hindustan Times, New Delhi June 5, 2005 S. Rajagopalan Washington, June 4 FOR THE second year in a row, the United States has put India on its watch list for human trafficking on grounds that it has not done enough to deal with the problem. The State Department's annual "Trafficking in Persons" report, talks of India's "inability to show evidence of increased efforts to address trafficking in persons". In particular, it points to "lack of progress in forming a national law enforcement response to inter-state and transnational trafficking crimes". The upshot of this assessment is that India figures on the department's "Tier 2 Watch List". Countries on this list will be subject to an interim assessment before next report. Any slip to Tier 3 can prompt the US to withhold non-humanitarian and non-trade related assistance. ...India, according to the report, is "a source, transit and destination country for people trafficked for the purposes of sexual exploitation".
Prostitution grew by 50 per cent within a decade Hindustan, New Delhi, Friday July 7, 2006 New Delhi. The results of a survey conducted with the permission of the Central Govt. are alarming. According to this survey of Gram Niyojan Kendra, Ghaziabad prostitution grew in the country by around 50 per cent in a period less than a decade from 1997 to 2003-04. The report of this survey of Gram Niyojan Kendra's founder Dr. K. K. Mukherji and its President Sutapa Mukherji has been submitted to the central government. Dr. Mukherji told that the report has been prepared after talking with about ten thousand people in the country which include prostitutes as well as others. As per the report, there were 20 lakh prostitutes in the country in 1997 which rose to around 3l lakhs in 2004. Sutapa Mukherji who states that the methodology and results of the survey are quite reliable, told 'Hindustan' that on the average a woman works as a prostitute only for 15 years. Dr. Mukherji said society's changing attitude towards sex, desire to have more fun, western culture, poverty, easy way of making money etc. are the main reasons for growing prostitution in India. (Translated from Hindi) |
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Show's over for Jagat cinema Hindustan Times, New Delhi Tuesday March 8, 2005 HT Correspondent New Delhi, March 7 THE CURTAINS will soon fall on Jagat Cinema, constructed near Jama Masjid before independence. The Delhi Police have cancelled the hall's license for screening pornographic films. In an order passed last month, the Licensing Branch of the Delhi Police had said this was being done in violation of the Cinematograph Act, 1952. "We have cancelled the hall's license. Criminal proceedings against the licensee are also going on separately," DCP (Licensing) Arun Kampani said. The Special Cell had raided the hall in September during a porn film. Several porn films were recovered and three staffers arrested. Soon after, the Licensing Branch had suspended the hall's license and had issued a show-cause notice for a permanent cancellation. No surrogate ads, the government's watching Hindustan Times, New Delhi, Saturday September 24, 2005 CHETAN Chauhan New Delhi, September 23 IT WILL not be easy for liquor manufacturers to advertise their brands through soda or mineral water with identical names anymore. The Information and Broadcasting Ministry's draft policy to check surrogate ads has suggested that no brand that is a namesake of a liquor on sale in the market be advertised on TV or radio. The only relaxation will be in the cases where the turnover of surrogate product is substantial. "We'll permit surrogate ads only if the sale from the secondary product is 40-50 per cent of the original product," a senior government source said. Incidentally, most surrogate brands do not fulfill the criteria laid down by the Ministry. Revenue generation from such products is just 5-7 per cent of the main liquor brands. In most cases, the ad-spend on surrogate products hugely out-stripped earnings from sales. "The data we have is enough to indicate that these products are nothing but proxies for the fast-moving liquor brands," an official said. The policy is also likely to impact sports telecasts in a big way as it would also target cricket matches and series sponsored by popular liquor brands. "The just ended India-Zimbabwe series, sponsored by Royal Stag, would have got covered if the new policy was in force," the official remarked. The Ministry proposes that such matches could be named after a brand but without explaining in any manner the nature of their products. "It will be a repeat of the Indian Tobacco Company (ITC) sponsored 2001 world cup incident where the company was barred from promoting its non-cigarette products on TV," the sources explained. They said the ban would be extended to both Indian and foreign broadcasters. Those found violating the ban would have to face action in terms of denial of up-linking and down-linking facility. |