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Government all set to introduce new anti-trafficking law: Life term for repeat offenders

Team SoOLEGAL 30 Dec 2017 11:43am

Government all set to introduce new anti-trafficking law: Life term for repeat offenders

The government is set to introduce a law to guard against human trafficking, proposing a 10-year punishment for those engaging in "aggravated forms of trafficking" while seeking life imprisonment for repeat offenders.

A bill to identify various forms of trafficking, including for the purposes of bonded labour, sexual exploitation, pornography, removal of organs and begging, has proposed severe punishment for those engaging in the heinous crime.

The Trafficking of Persons (Prevention, Protection and Rehabilitation) Bill 2017, initiated by the Women & Child Development Ministry, is currently with a Group of Ministers (GoM) that will take a final view on the matter, as reported in TOI.

The bill proposes the establishment of a national anti-trafficking bureau, which shall be entrusted with the gamut of issues aimed at controlling and tackling the menace under various forms. These include coordination, monitoring and surveillance of illegal movement of persons and their prevention. The bureau will also be entrusted with increasing cooperation and coordination with authorities concerned and organisations in foreign countries for strengthening operational and long-term intelligence for investigation of trafficking cases, and driving in mutual legal assistance.

Listing out the 'aggravated forms of trafficking', the bill speaks about offences such as forced labour, or bonded labour, by using violence, intimidation, inducement, promise of payment of money, deception or coercion. Also, it mentions trafficking after administering any narcotic drug or psychotropic substance or alcohol, or for the purpose of marriage or under the pretext of marriage.

"Whoever commits the offence of aggravated form of trafficking of a person shall be punished with rigorous imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than 10 years, but which may extend to life imprisonment and shall be liable to fine that shall not be less than Rs 1 lakh," the bill proposes.

For repeat offenders, it suggests imprisonment for life "which shall mean imprisonment for the remainder of that person's natural life", apart from a fine that will not be less than Rs 2 lakh.

[Source: TOI]



Tagged: Human Trafficking law   Protection and Rehabilitation  
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