Flesh trade thriving in several Spa-centres, hotels with banquets in Jammu

Jammu is hogging a lot many tags, with some for wrong reasons. The City of Temples, as it boasted its identity years ago, is ironically fast traversing towards becoming a den of prostitution with certain Spa-centres and hotels with banquets encouraging and facilitating flesh trade. The modus operandi is bewildering and startling. The banquets are booked for performing marriage ceremonies. Here begins the vicious circle of ‘sex trade’.
According to sources, some hotels with banquets, after getting booked for marriage functions, keep some rooms reserved for their exclusive use, notwithstanding the fact that these rooms are actually shown booked by the hosts. Once the marriage functions take off, the unscrupulous hotel managements lure their clientele of providing girls in ‘safe environs’ by making the use of the rooms not physically allotted to hosts of the marriage functions. Since guests keep coming and going from the marriage functions, nobody can nurture an iota of suspicion about the ‘so-called guests’ actually indulging in ‘flesh trade’ in such rooms.
The clientele happily pay the charges as per demand in view of the ‘assured safety’ since there is no apprehension of police raids or anybody suspecting anything like ‘flesh trade’ going on in hotel-cum-banquet halls.
The flesh trade under the guise of ‘social functions’ are not restricted to marriage season only as the people have lately become ‘party savvy’ and on one pretext or the other, keep on holding functions and hosting parties, which gives a big boost to the ‘flesh trade’ in the City.
The menace of hotel-cum-banquet halls being used for flesh trade has unfolded yet another but a big challenge. Before embarking on curbing this menace, the police is required to be doubly sure about the ‘fishy things’ happening alongside the genuine marriage functions, keeping in view the sensitivity of the social gatherings.
Sources said the police have lately discovered such a modus operandi of some hotel-cum-banquet halls and are drawing strategies to tackle the menace effectively while maintaining the privacy and sanctity of social functions. This has unnerved the unscrupulous management who find themselves caught in a catch-22 situation.
Number of Spa centers, offering sexual services in the garb of massages, is equally increasing rapidly in the winter capital. These centers operate through various modes of social media and ‘mouth of word’. Erotic messages are flashed to the prospective clients to lure them. In certain cases photos of the ‘sex workers’ are also shared with the ‘trusted-clients’.
Such has been the power of the ‘word of mouth’ that the desirous clients just call few designated numbers and get detailed information before deciding, which one to visit. On arrival, the client has to choose the service-provider, part with a nice tip and commission to the facilitator. Some Spa-centers reportedly provide their service at homes also.