Legalize Prostitution- Supreme Court
In a historic moment of India’s history of controversial amendments or suggestions for the previous laws, the Supreme Court today asked the government to legalize prostitution in order to monitor and thus avoid trafficking of women and providing alternative means for such women’s future.
Justices Dalveer Bhandari and AK Patnaik told Solicitor-General Gopal Subramaniam that “When you say it is the world’s oldest profession and when you are not able to curb it by laws, why don’t you legalize it? You can then monitor the trade, rehabilitate and provide medical aid to those involved.”
The judges emphasized the immediate implementation of the legalisation procedure for sex trade as no country has ever been able to totally curb this by legalisation.
The bench that was hearing a PIL filed by NGOs Bachpan Bachao Andolan and Childline who complained about large-scale child trafficking in the country and seeking directives to contain it, said child trafficking and sex trade can not be contained unless poverty be eradicated in rural areas.
Currently, more than 37% of the population is still under poverty line. “Growth of GDP does not mean some four or five families have developed. If this is the state of development, we can’t help it,” the bench said. This makes ignorant and desperate parents push young girls towards sex trade.
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In India, poverty and inequitable distribution of income are the main factors that force women into this trade, carried out rampantly all across the nation. Penalizing people has not yielded good results mainly because the urge for sex is natural and migrant workers and others wanting to have sex often visit prostitutes and call girls. The flourishing industry has, however, contributed to the growing problem of AIDS and HIV. It is for these reasons that the issue of legalizing the industry is being debated. Even the Supreme Court of India has asked the Indian government on whether the industry could be legalized to resolve the various problems associated with it. I read some on http://www.lawisgreek.com/indian-laws-on-prostitution-industry-should-it-be-legalized/