No paid sex in Goa without Aadhaar
Authorities often use Aadhaar to verify crime records of people (or the lack of it), but turns out it has the opposite use too: a certain section in Goa is using Aadhaar to verify whether people are undercover policemen. TOI reports pimps in Goa are asking clients for Aadhaar as well as photos of their hotel room keys to ensure their girls' security.
What happened when five Delhi youths reached Goa to "party"
A group of five youths from Delhi landed in Goa to celebrate their friend's bachelor party. They already had a contact for girls. But when they called the person, first, they were made to wait for hours for a revert. When the person finally got back, he asked for photos for their Aadhaar cards and their room keys with the hotel tag attached!
Why the bizarre demands?
According to TOI, the "contact" took some hours verifying if their phone number was actually Delhi-based. Aadhaar was to confirm they aren't police decoys. With the hotel tag, they survey the area near the premises for "impending danger", particularly police raids. Even then, they are hesitant to send many girls because if they're all caught together, their earnings take a hit, a cop said.
A state where 'anything goes'
Sex trade in Goa differs from other states in terms of the authorities' willingness to clamp down: often, in an effort to not harm the tourism industry, officials refrain from taking action against commonly-available escorts in the state. According to Arunendra Pandey of NGO Arz, the demand is sustained mostly by Indian men, for whom Goa is India's "State of Vices" where anything goes.
