Thank you.
It's definitely a huge nexus. It's not an easy thing. Recently, just last year, because of one of our raids, one of the biggest traffickers in Delhi was caught. That man was worth millions of rupees. He had fancy cars, and that man and his wife were using them to traffic more than 5,000 minor girls across the country.
This whole nexus works and, unfortunately, they get away because of the loopholes in the law. There is something called investigating. For example, if I rescue a girl in Mumbai and I know that I can catch the brothel owner, I can catch the local trafficker. The local trafficker is this one point of contact for three to four other traffickers, which are on the route.
For example, if a girl has been trafficked from West Bengal, she has been trafficked by one guy who brings her to Delhi. From Delhi they will bring her to Pune. From Pune they will bring her to Mumbai.
There are multiple people playing this role, and the most unfortunate part is that there is nothing called an interstate investigation. When an inquiry has been lodged in Mumbai, the police do not have the power to go and investigate the matter in West Bengal or in Delhi or any other state outside the state of Maharashtra.
It becomes very difficult for us to catch the real perpetrators; hence, the trafficking never stops. We are working towards that point. Also, we will soon be filing a petition in the court to hold governments and security agencies responsible for this job and say that they should be going to different states and they should be doing investigations.