The Supreme Court on Saturday directed the state governments to conduct a survey in accordance with the recommendation made by a court-appointed panel to ensure release of adult women from Immoral Traffic Prevention Act (ITPA) Protective Homes, who are detained against their will.
The Centre in Supreme Court has raised certain reservations in respect of the recommendations made by the panel that sex workers should not be arrested or penalised or harassed or victimised as voluntary sex work is "not illegal".
The Centre in Supreme Court has raised certain reservations in respect of the recommendations made by the panel that sex workers should not be arrested or penalised or harassed or victimised as voluntary sex work is "not illegal".
An SC-appointed panel has recommended various guidelines including one that says, "Whenever there is a raid on any brothel, since voluntary sex work is not illegal and only running the brothel is unlawful, sex workers concerned should not be arrested or penalised or harassed or victimised."