Kerala High Court grants interim bail to Srilankan refugees accused of illegally immigrating to Canada via Sea
Kerala High Court: In bail applications filed by the accused persons for offences under Sections 511 and 370 read with
Human trafficking
Whether conducting a Test Identification Parade after a lapse of a long time, will serve any purpose or not? Karnataka HC answers in negative
Karnataka High Court: While deciding the instant petition wherein an order of conducting a Test Identification Parade (TIP) after a
Aadhaar Card for Sex Workers| Supreme Court bats for sex workers’ right to dignity; directs UIDAI to issue Aadhaar Card without insisting on address proof
“…basic protection of human decency and dignity extends to sex workers and their children, who, bearing the brunt of social stigma attached to their work, are removed to the fringes of the society, deprived of their right to live with dignity and opportunities to provide the same to their children.”
Mere suspicion is not enough to prosecute the petitioner for offence punishable under S. 370 of the IPC for human trafficking; Kar HC observes in a case where AIO caught 3 Indian nationals on suspicion
Karnataka High Court: M Nagaprasanna J. allowed the petition and quashed the proceedings in the case pending on the file of the
Kar HC | Customers caught in brothel cannot be prosecuted for immoral trafficking under Immoral Traffic Prevention Act, 1956
Karnataka High Court: M Nagaprasanna J. allowed the criminal petition and quashed the proceedings in Crime No.347/2021 pending before the 32nd Additional
Trafficked then thrown into prostitution; HC addresses plight of minor girl, directs District Judges to sensitize judicial officers about provisions of POCSO and JJ Act
Patna High Court: While addressing the plight of a minor girl who was first trafficked by her own maternal uncle and was
[Human Trafficking] HP HC | A woman accused cannot claim her entitlement for bail only for her womanhood, but discretion has been given to Court; Bail granted
Himachal Pradesh High Court: Vivek Singh Thakur, J., granted regular bail on grounds that she is a mother of an infant child
Human Trafficking
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Ori HC | “Law makers have missed opportunity to prescribe stringent punishment; a yawning gap between law and its enforcement”: Court while feeling constrained to grant bail to accused involved in sex trafficking
“No nation, with all its boasts, and all its hopes, can ever morally be clean till all its women are really free
Cabinet approves MoU signed between India and Myanmar on bilateral cooperation for Prevention of Trafficking in Persons
The Union Cabinet has given approval for the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between India and Myanmar on bilateral cooperation for the Prevention
Guidelines issued for streamlining the prosecution in cases of Human Trafficking
Bombay High Court – In the light of increasing incidents of human trafficking and misuse of the provisions of bail by the