Kolkata: Demanding police action in the recent murder of a 24-year-old sex worker, a group of women from Sonagachi red-light area on Tuesday took out a candle light march.
Sathi Das, who was trying to exit the dirty world of brothels, was found murdered earlier this month, activists of the NGO "Apne Aap Women Worldwide" said.
The candle march started from the place where Sathi lived. They went to the lanes and bylanes of Sonagachi red light area, considered largest in Asia, and concluded the march with a Rabindranath Tagore song in front of Apne Aap campaign centre.
The candle light march was joined by sex workers and women from Munshiganj, and other NGOs functioning in the area.
A 22-year-old girl living in the red light area, whose mother was in prostitution, said, "I have grown up in this area and since my childhood, I have seen so many people being killed. These days the news does not affect me as much as it used to earlier. We are kind of used to the violence".
Ruchira Gupta, Founder of Apne Aap, said if prostitution is legalised "this would enable the sex-industry to get away with even more sexual violence as the police would consider the violence legal".
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