Our job is very vulnerable. We have over 150 spies. These spies are not saints. He could be a criminal, she could be a criminal, or she could be a trafficker. We take benefit of who [Technical difficulty--Editor]. We will try to reach out to brothel owners and ask if they can give us information about the other brothel owners. Our job is so tough, and it cannot be done in the most saintly way.
When you talk about the police informers, or about any bigger agency informers, you have to get into the drain to clean the drain. It's not possible for you to remain clean. Unfortunately, we have to do this job for the larger good of the girls. At times, the trafficker will pay more money to the police and ask them to release a girl. We tell them that we'll give them more money than the trafficker if they give her to us. The only difference is that he will take her back to the brothel and we will take her to our shelter home and take care of her.
The challenges are massive. It's not easy to work with the kind of systems that are there, but we are very hopeful that things are changing. Thankfully, there is something called an anti-human trafficking cell in the state of Maharashtra that has been created. We work closely with them. I wish it were an ideal situation.