Summary:
The report highlighted the violence inflicted on sex workers, including women and transgenders, at the hands of the police. They beat up sex workers thinking it is their constitutional duty when in fact it is just moral policing. The NGOs specifically called out vigilante forces such as Obavva Pade, for harassing sex workers and violating their rights. They said that sex workers are made to pay ‘fines’ without receipts, just to be let off from the station or get their belongings back. He and his officers are not sensitised to sex work and consider it dirty or criminalised,” an activist said..