(a) whether the Government proposed to make stringent and drastic changes in the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956 in view of increasing prostitution;
(b) if so, the details thereof; and
(c) if not, the reasons therefor?
(a) whether the Government proposed to make stringent and drastic changes in the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956 in view of increasing prostitution;
(b) if so, the details thereof; and
(c) if not, the reasons therefor?
MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE
DEVELOPMENT (SHRIMATI SUMITRA MAHAJAN)
(a)&(b) Yes, Sir. The amendments proposed in the Immoral
Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956 would include replacing the
term `child’ with the phrase `a person less than 18 years of
age’, imposition of higher penalties and fines for offences
committed under various sections of the Act such as keeping
a brothel or allowing premises to be used as a brothel,
living on the earnings of prostitution, procuring, inducing
and inducting persons for the sake of prostitution,
detaining a person in premises where prostitution is carried
on, besides certain changes of consequential nature.
(c) Does not arise.