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Call to sensitise girls on crime
Atrocities on girls and women need to be looked on par with trafficking, according to H Arun Kumar, Special Commissioner, Department of Women Development and Child Welfare.
Vijayawada: Atrocities on girls and women need to be looked on par with trafficking, according to H Arun Kumar, Special Commissioner, Department of Women Development and Child Welfare.
He was the chief guest at state-level workshop on rehabilitation of survivors of trafficking here on Saturday. He emphasised the need to sensitise adolescent girls on various forms of crimes committed against them.
He observed that the girls in adolescence were being trapped in the name of love and then dragged into trafficking. He released a booklet on trafficking on the occasion.
Secretary of HELP, an NGO, NVS Rammohan expressed concern over pathetic state of women. The rescued women were being rescued again within three months.
When asked what made them to continue in flesh trade, the women have been revealing shocking facts about the circumstances that were forcing them to do prostitution to clear debts. The loans they had taken to pay lawyers (Rs 15,000) was one of the main reasons for their reluctance to lead a decent life. He expressed anguish that the women they were not being paid any compensation after rescue from traffickers.
Even society was not giving them a chance to sympathise with them and they had to carry the social stigma wherever they go. He said public prosecutors should take initiative for their bail.
Even District Legal Service Authority should also take initiative to arrange for lawyer to mitigate their woes after rescue. Though the guidelines say compensation of Rs 20,000 reach them within one week, it was not being implemented, he lamented.
Rammohan urged joint effort of prosecution, Special Juvenile Police Unit (SJPU) and public prosecutors was the need of the hour to bail out the girls trapped in trafficking.
S Umapathi, retired IG, also spoke. The meet discussed various issues, including context and scenario of child trafficking, latest trends by traffickers and perpetrators, status of implementation of laws, policies and guidelines in anti-trafficking interventions and status of convictions in trafficking cases. Legal Services Authority officials from different districts were present
