SAIRA BEGUM,43

Saira has a 28-year-old crime record in Delhi’s police stations. And, it is only the documented years of her activities in the crime world.

Police suspect her crimes span for over three decades. Saira, along with her husband, Afaq, was arrested in 2016 for running one of Delhi’s biggest human trafficking and call girl racket. While Begum is in prison, her aides continue to run brothels at GB Road, near Paharganj.

Currently lodged in jail under the stringent MCOCA Act, the couple had allegedly trafficked hundreds of women from Nepal and India.

She was first arrested in 1990 for soliciting prostitution. She started as a sex worker in brothel number 57 of GB Road and later bought it to run her own racket.

In August 2016, when police arrested her, they seized four luxury cars, including an Audi. She had over ₹1 crore in bank deposits. With three flats in Bengaluru, six kothas at GB Road and a farmhouse in southeast Delhi, she had made a fortune through trafficking girls and forcing them into prostitution.

Police are probing if she runs other brothels in GB Road under false names.