KOLKATA, 16 JULY: The brutal murder of a Bangladeshi sex worker has triggered panic in the Matia police station area of North 24 Parganas district, officials said today. According to police sources, the victim, believed to be around 25 years old, had been brought into India illegally by traffickers and was sold into a red-light district near Matia, where she had been working for the past few years. She lived alone in a rented room adjacent to the area. The incident occurred on Monday evening when local residents, noticing that the woman had not responded to repeated calls, peered through her window and found her lying motionless on the bed, with visible blood stains on her face. They alerted police, who recovered the body and sent it for post-mortem to the Basirhat District Hospital morgue. “She appears to have been murdered inside her rented room. We are investigating whether a client or someone else was behind the killing,” said a police officer from Matia station.
No arrests have been made so far, and the identity of the assailant remains unknown. The victim’s body has not yet been claimed, and police say they have not been able to trace her family in Bangladesh. Authorities suspect the woman was trafficked across the border by a broker, but said the details of her entry and subsequent placement in the red-light area are still under investigation. The incident has sparked outrage among local residents, with many demanding increased safety measures and stricter crackdowns on cross-border trafficking networks.
