Trafficking in Women and Children for Sexual Exploitation – Handbook for Law

The handbook reflects actual needs as per the law enforcement agencies to prevent trafficking of women and children, and rehabilitate them.

Trafficking does not mean prostitution. They are not synonymous. In understanding trafficking, one should delink it from prostitution. As per the existing law, Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act 1956 (ITPA) prostitution becomes an offence when there is commercial exploitation of a person. If a woman or child is sexually exploited and any person gains out of the same, it amounts to commercial sexual exploitation (CSE), which is a legally punishable offence wherein the culpability lies against all...