Prostitution is legal in India.[1] A number of related activities including soliciting , kerb crawling, owning or managing a brothel, prostitution in a hotel,[2] child prostitution, pimping and pandering[3] are illegal.[4][5] There are, however, many brothels illegally operating in Indian cities including Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata and Chennai.[6] UNAIDS estimate there were 657,829 prostitutes in the country as of 2016.[7]