Supreme Court slams Centre for inaction over direction on sex trafficking
The Hindu
Supreme Court slams Centre for inaction over direction on sex trafficking
The government is yet to implement a “comprehensive legislation” against sex trafficking even nine years after a Supreme Court direction in December 2015.
A Supreme Court Bench headed by Justice P.B. Pardiwala found on Tuesday (November 12, 2024) that the direction to the Home Ministry on December 9, 2015, to set up a dedicated body to probe sex trafficking was discarded.
The proposed ‘Organised Crime Investigative Agency’ or OCIA did not see the light of the day. The top court had ordered the Ministry to form the OCIA before September 30, 2016. It was supposed to have been functional before December 1, 2016.
The court had flagged how important the issues of preventing and detecting trafficking and rescuing the victims were.
An effort to pass a special law, The Trafficking of Persons (Prevention, Care and Rehabilitation) Bill, 2018, is also stuck.
It had cleared the Lok Sabha but not the Rajya Sabha as Parliament was dissolved before that.
The government, represented by Additional Solicitor General Aishwarya Bhati, could only point to amendments made to expand the ambit of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to include the offence of human trafficking.
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