A 28-year-old girl from Nagpur alleged {that a} Pune primarily based agency promising jobs in international nations, took Rs 8 lakh from her, however later offered her to a beer store proprietor in Portugal for prostitution and labour work.
The girl lodged the primary info report (FIR) at Vimantal police station on August 5.
As per the FIR, the girl accomplished B Com from a university in Nagpur and later received married to a person, who’s engaged in promoting Ayurvedic medicines.
Whereas on the lookout for job alternatives in December final yr, the girl got here throughout an Instagram web page of an organization known as We Migrate, which had its workplace in Phoenix Marketcity in Viman Nagar, Pune metropolis.
After she contacted the telephone quantity on the Instagram web page over WhatsApp, she was added to a WhatsApp group named “Lets Migrate Neighborhood 3” on January 24, 2026. She then went to We Migrate’s workplace together with her husband and mother-in-law on February 14, the FIR said.
The FIR said some staffers on the workplace claimed the corporate was registered with the Ministry of Exterior Affairs.
They confirmed her varied paperwork like a “licence”, “pupil non permanent resident card (TRC)” and “work allow”. They made her communicate over the telephone with three individuals, who claimed to be working in Portugal, Spain and Netherland on a month wage of Rs 1.5 lakh.
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The FIR said that the corporate provided her jobs equivalent to that of a employee, grocery store cashier and accountant, in numerous nations on cost of Rs 11 lakh, of which Rs 3 lakh was meant for air tickets, visa and insurance coverage. They mentioned she may name her husband wherever she was after three months on a “dependent visa”, the FIR said.
The girl paid Rs 1 lakh to a staffer by way of a UPI transaction and over the subsequent few days, she paid Rs 7 lakhs extra, police mentioned.
As per the FIR, the girl submitted paperwork for her visa at VSF International in Hyderabad on March 5 and later obtained a “a number of entry visa” for France on March 14, by courier. On March 17, she was requested to guide an air ticket from Mumbai to Spain, the FIR said.
On Might 21, she left for Spain, the place a person picked her up and subsequent the day took her to Portugal, the place she was made to remain at a Punjabi man’s home. The girl alleged two individuals snatched her passport right here and returned it after she paid them 400 Euros.
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She was then taken to Odemira in Portugal, for “faculty admission and pupil TRC” and a cashier job at a grocery store. She was stored at a home with two extra ladies hailing from Rajasthan and Haryana.
As a substitute of getting a grocery store job, she was allegedly offered to a beer store in Odemira and was requested to fulfill individuals for prostitution as per the directions of her grasp, the FIR said.
It additional said that the girl known as her husband over the telephone, saying they’d been cheated. She managed to go away Odemira and attain Madrid in Spain by bus on Might 29. She then went to Doha, and from there, to Delhi by flight on Might 31, police mentioned.
Her husband obtained her in Delhi and returned to Nagpur. Nevertheless, she continued to obtain emails looking for her passport and demanding her for Rs 3 lakh extra for an additional job in another country.
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The girl got here to Pune together with her husband and filed a grievance with town police. Based mostly on her grievance, an FIR was lodged towards eight individuals — 4 from Pune and 4 primarily based in Portugal — below Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) sections 127(6) (wrongful confinement),143(2) (trafficking of individual), 3(5), 308(5) (extortion), 316(2) (legal breach of belief), 318(4) (dishonest), 351(3) (legal intimidation),61(2) (legal conspiracy).
The investigation within the case was handed over to the crime department. Senior police inspector Santosh Sonawane of the crime department mentioned, “We have now launched a probe into this case. As per the grievance, offence has taken place in India and overseas. Verification of the small print talked about within the grievance is being finished and additional motion will likely be taken.”
