The Supreme Court on Wednesday summoned Maharashtra DGP Satish Mathur and requested him to look earlier than it to provide an explanation for the failure of law-enforcement officials to unearth systematic channels of human trafficking in the state, which came to light after 68 women, together with 18 minors, had been rescued from a crimson light area of Shahada, Nandurbar, in January last 12 months.
Abench of Justice J Chelameswar and Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul expressed dissatisfaction over the probe performed through the state police, which contended that each one women had “confessed” that that they had gone there on their very own and no other particular person was keen on human trafficking.
The courtroom requested the DGP to look earlier than it on April three. The courtroom said the entire women are from a particular community and are available from six districts of Rajasthan and it confirmed that there may well be a well-established channel beneath which they had been being taken and pushed into flesh industry.
“How are you able to not see what is going on behind the scenes. It is troubling us how you are conducting the probe. There should be some channel by which those women had been taken to Maharashtra and also you will have to to find out who're the individuals behind it,” the bench said.
The courtroom passed the order on a petition filed through an NGO, Rescue Foundation, which pleaded the courtroom to interfere to offer protection to the interests of the minor women who had been rescued last 12 months however had been handed over to their guardians without following due procedure of regulation.
Advocate Abhishek Bharti, appearing for the NGO, submitted that right kind inquiry will have to had been performed earlier than handing over the custody to “so-called” guardians to safeguard the interests of the minors.
Abench of Justice J Chelameswar and Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul expressed dissatisfaction over the probe performed through the state police, which contended that each one women had “confessed” that that they had gone there on their very own and no other particular person was keen on human trafficking.
The courtroom requested the DGP to look earlier than it on April three. The courtroom said the entire women are from a particular community and are available from six districts of Rajasthan and it confirmed that there may well be a well-established channel beneath which they had been being taken and pushed into flesh industry.
“How are you able to not see what is going on behind the scenes. It is troubling us how you are conducting the probe. There should be some channel by which those women had been taken to Maharashtra and also you will have to to find out who're the individuals behind it,” the bench said.
The courtroom passed the order on a petition filed through an NGO, Rescue Foundation, which pleaded the courtroom to interfere to offer protection to the interests of the minor women who had been rescued last 12 months however had been handed over to their guardians without following due procedure of regulation.
Advocate Abhishek Bharti, appearing for the NGO, submitted that right kind inquiry will have to had been performed earlier than handing over the custody to “so-called” guardians to safeguard the interests of the minors.
DGP issued SC summons over child sex racket case
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