India becoming a hub of child prostitution: SC

New Delhi, Jan 29 (PTI) India is "becoming a hub" for
largescale child prostitution rackets, the Supreme Court said
Friday and suggested the setting up of a special investigating
agency to tackle the menace.

A bench of Justices Dalveer Bhandari and A K Patnaik
asked Solicitor General Gopal Subramaniam to examine the idea
of setting up a special investigating agency to combat child
prostitution rackets and assured that courts would deny bail
to those who engage children in commercial sex.
"It's happening because of abject poverty in the country.
This is also because of the very high and largescale
unemployment. All our cultural ethos are going down the drain.
India is becoming a hub of such activities," the apex court
said while dealing with a Public Interest Litigation (PIL)
filed by an NGO Bachapan Bachao Andolan.
The apex court also wanted to know why government is not
invoking section 376 of Indian Penal Code (rape) against those
exploiting the children in such prostitution rackets.
"Majority of sex workers are children. Why don't you
register 376(IPC) against them? If you do it in 10 cases,
they will fall like a pack of cards. Courts will also not
grant bail to them. Unfortunately, we are putting such sex
workers to a lot of problem forcing them to face criminal
prosecution," the apex court said. PTI RB
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