Police officers, who raided a few such events, said they were surprised to find during their investigations that a number of event management companies ran prostitution rackets under the guise of organising events in the state.
"The girls were found to have been brought with proper knowledge of what they have to do during the conference in the guise of event management," police inspector Gurudas Kadam, who busted a racket run by an Andhra Pradesh-based company, said at a consultation session here.
Kadam is among other officials who are participating in the two-day long consultation to formulate a strategy to check human trafficking for sexual exploitation in Goa.
Government and NGO representatives from Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka, West Bengal, Assam, Nagaland, Manipur and Mizoram -- considered as source states for trafficking -- are participating in the programme, which began here today.
Speaking at the conference, Women and Child Development department Director Sanjiv Gadkar said the state government would network with the source states to verify whether the event management companies organising conferences in Goa have valid registrations.
"Consultations with the source states will help the state government in its efforts to ascertain the background of the girls who are usually employed by the event management companies during business conferences," Gadkar said. MORE
