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  105 women go missing everyday in Maharashtra, most land up in forced prostitution: NCRB data As many as 105 women go missing every day and 17 get trafficked every week in  Maharashtra , according to  National Crime Records Bureau  ( NCRB ) 2019. Nationally, the state records the highest  human trafficking  and missing women cases, followed by Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal. Of the 989 victims of trafficking, 88% were women and 6% were children. People were trafficked for various reasons such as bonded labour, organ trafficking, drug peddling, sexual exploitation, forced marriages etc. In case of Maharashtra, the reason for 95.6% of the trafficking was sexual exploitation through forced prostitution, data showed. Moreover, instances of women going missing in 2019 versus 2018 has increased by 13%. The state was not even in the list of top 10 states recording the highest number of missing children in 2018, but is now in the fourth rank nationally for re...