A Look into the Legislation of the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956 (Act No. 104 of 1956)

Author – AKASH MRITHVIN & SHRIHARIHARAN, Student at Sathyabama University

Best Citation – AKASH MRITHVIN & SHRIHARIHARAN, A Look into the Legislation of the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956 (Act No. 104 of 1956), ILE CONSTITUTIONAL REVIEW, 2 (1) of 2023, Pg. 01-04, ISSN – 2583-7168.

Abstract

One of the oldest professions in the world is Prostitution, as the society evolves this profession turns more into monetary benefit and which further turns into the forced exploitation of young girls. This became the starting stage of profession turning into crime where the forceful exploitation was the basic motive of trafficking of humans as after the arms and drugs, human trafficking became the third largest organised crime in the world. Both internationally and domestically there where millions of people are trafficked every year. Though the constitution of India and penal laws of our country provide certain provisions for the trafficking of humans no certain law was efficient enough to curtail this offence in our country. To provide the international legal framework through which trafficking could be combatted world-wide. According to deal with the problem at the national level countries like India, who have ratified the protocol, are obligated to amend their domestic laws. Indeed looking the prostitutes as the evil professionalism as a common society, the legislative assembly had passed this legislation with the view point of prostitutes as the victims of sexual exploitation, with reference to this key line this paper started to analyse the immoral trafficking (prevention) act 1986 as the legal custodian to seep out the offence from our country.

Keywords Prostitutes, exploitation, sex, humans, trafficking, society, legislative, India, constitution.