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Laws against child prostitution

Laws against Prostitution Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act - PITA Amending "The Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act" of 1986 or PITA, All India Suppression of Immoral Traffic Act (SITA), was amended to the current law. The laws were imposed on the population for limiting and eventually abolishing prostitution in India by gradually criminalizing various aspects of Sex work. PITA has following provisions -: Sex Workers: A prostitute who seduces or solicits shall be prosecuted. Similarly, call girls can not publish phone numbers to the public. (imprisonment up to 6 months with fine, point 8) Sex worker also punished for prostitution near any public place or notified area. (Imprisonment of up to 3 months with fine, point 7) Clients: A client is guilty of consorting with prostitutes and can be charged if he engages in sex acts with a sex worker within 200 yards of a public place or "notified area". (Imprisonment of up to 3 months, point 7) ...

How Police helps the Brothel owners to shelter Prostitutes?

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How Police helps the Brothel owners to shelter Prostitutes ? I was going through "Youtube" in search of any documentary on Child prostitution and found these two videos which convey lot of things  -  - How police helps the local brothels to run their businesses.  - How hard is it to rescue a girl from a Brothel. How people support prostitution in and around the Brothel. In the video you will find a man struggling to rescue girls from a brothel and the ways in which brothel owners hide their sex employees.   In Bombay, children as young as 9 are bought for up to 60,000 rupees, or US$2,000, at auctions where foreigners bid against Indian men who believe sleeping with a virgin cures gonorrhea and syphilis. Child prostitution is more common here in India than any where else in the world. India has more than 1.3 million children in its sex-trade centers. The children come from relatively poorer areas and are trafficked to relatively richer...