Picture: Google ImagesIn a fresh attempt to expose the countrywide ring of flesh trade, a 19-year-old girl from West Bengal was rescued from a brothel at GB Road area of Delhi.
After much underpinning and careful planning by the Human Rights Law Network team, the victim, Lalita Mandal (name changed) was rescued from the confines of GB Road brothels early this month with the help of the police officials. The girl was abducted from West Bengal and after “passing” through various hands, was finally brought to Delhi by her traffickers and was put in a brothel three months ago.
The recent intervention by the anti-trafficking initiative of HRLN Trafficking shows how the inter-state trafficking of women and young girls is flourishing unabated. Trafficking for sexual exploitation encompasses an organised movement of people, usually women and young girls, between countries and within countries for flesh trade with the use of physical coercion, deception and bondage through forced debt. Traffickers employ means such as offers of marriage, threats, intimidation and kidnapping to get their victims. In many cases traffickers initially offer ‘legitimate’ work or the promise of an opportunity to study, however, in the majority of cases the women end up in prostitution. In others, women, young girls and children are put to other kinds of sexually exploitative tasks like pornography, child pornography, domestic slavery, etc. The Immoral Trafficking Prevention Act (ITPA), the only central Indian legislation that deals with trafficking, inexplicably fails to provide a definition for the same. The provisions of the amendment to the ITPA further blur the distinction between voluntary prostitution and trafficking for commercial sexual exploitation. Instead of empowering sex workers or prostitutes, the provisions infringe their right to livelihood and freedom of profession. In this backdrop the crime continues to exist.
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