Summary:
They responded to two missed calls that promised them quick loans. They returned home and joined a survivors’ group that participates in anti-trafficking drives with the help of local NGOs.On Monday, one of the women received another missed call. Almost 40% of about 5,000 girls they trafficked are from South 24 Parganas. She suddenly realised it was the same number that had flashed on her mobile screen on that fateful day two years ago. KOLKATA: Two missed calls on their cell phones two years ago had turned the lives of two young housewives from Bengal’s Sunderbans area into a nightmare: overnight they were trafficked to Pune and forced to work as sex workers till their rescue last November..