Wheels of change: From GB Road to her own
Once a captive, now a captain, her hands grip the handlebars, not the bars of a locked room.
"I had just started college. My father was undergoing an operation in Bengaluru and couldn't work. My younger brother, only 15, strove to earn Rs 200 a day. We were desperate," the former sex worker recalled to TOI.
In the midst of this desperation, she was approached by a man who noticed her fluent English. "He said he could get me a job in a hotel in Delhi.
He promised me Rs 60,000 a month. Thinking of my father and my family, I agreed," she said. That very night in 2012, she boarded a train to Delhi. For 15 days, she alleged she was kept locked in a house. Then, the man took her to GB Road and sold her to a brothel for the amount she had been promised every month: Rs 60,000.
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The next three years were a nightmare. "I was locked in a tiny room, beaten, forced into sex work. I wasn't allowed to contact my family.
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If I resisted, I was assaulted," she recounted. In 2016, she gave birth to her first child in that brothel. "There was no space and no safety. I had to tie one of his legs to the door with a dupatta for hours, months and years, so he wouldn't wander off or get hurt. That leg never developed properly.
His brain didn't either. He silently suffered while I tried to earn my freedom," she narrated.
She was eventually rescued when pregnant for the second time by a team of the all-women police post at Shraddhanand Marg led by sub-inspector Kiran Sethi, "Even after I got out, the world wasn't ready to accept me," said the woman, explaining that her Aadhaar card listed her GB Road address, leading to harassment and rejection from potential employers.
That's when SI Sethi handed her an e-rickshaw. Today, she drives across central and north Delhi, Anand Parbat, Paharganj, GB Road itself, charging her rickshaw at the police post. "I want to earn enough to send my two-year-old daughter into the armed forces when she grows up," she said. "I want her to protect this nation. I couldn't save myself, but I will raise a daughter who can save others." Her daughter and son live in a welfare home.
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