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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