‘I won’t leave…will fight to get back all I lost’

While the former Miss Jammu admits there are others like her who get duped into the sex racket everyday, what puts Anara apart is her determination to fight it out. ‘‘I am stepping forward because I want all those who exploited me to be punished, so that they do not repeat it with anyone else,’’ says the girl who turned 18 two months ago. ‘‘I will not leave Jammu…I will fight to get back all that I have lost—my prestige, my status and my education.’’

At the time she won the beauty crown—October 7, 2001—she was studying in Class XII and was a good student. But she left studies midway, she says, falling for the promises of Miss Jammu contest organiser Narinder Kohli to get her a ‘‘big break’’ in Bollywood. Soon he had her shooting for the porn film, Anara claims.

According to her, she fell for what Kohli held out because ‘‘Mein kuch achieve karna chahti thi…Par aise nahin (I wanted to achieve something in life…But not like this).’’

While she has done a bit of modelling, stage shows and television serials, Anara is now determined to go back to finishing her education. ‘‘I will resume my studies and reach a stage where people would look up to me,’’ she says. ‘‘…Beauty mein kuch nahin rakha hai, yeh sab ek dikhawa hai (Beauty doesn’t mean anything, it is a mere show).’’

Luckily for Anara, her family is standing by her despite the scorn directed their way since her arrest. Her mother, who is a government schoolteacher in Katra, says her three sons (two of them minor) have been in a state of shock. ‘‘It seems that our whole world has shattered in one stroke of bad luck,’’ she says.

However, Anara’s elder brother Prince, who runs a shop here, says the fight with the ‘‘rotten system’’ had just begun and they had a long way to go.

Anara too attacks the system which allows girls to be lured into the flesh trade in the guise of fashion shows and modelling.