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The Immoral Traffic Persons (Prevention) Act or PITA is a bit of legislation passed in India in 1956 as a result of the India signing the United Nations' declaration in 1950 in New York on the suppression of trafficking. The act was then called the All India Suppression of Immoral Traffic Act (SITA), but was amended in 1986 to the current law. United Nations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ...
Trafficking is a term to describe a transnational illegal activity, involving transporting, usually smuggling drugs, transporting small arms or people. ...
The laws were intended as a means of limiting and eventually abolishing prostitution in India by gradually criminalizing various aspects of sex work. The law itself is vague in many respects, since it does not make prostitution a crime, but forbids sex workers from publically solicting customers. Prostitutes are forbidden to practice their trade within 200 yards of a "public place" or a notified area (a "notified area" is a place that is declared by the government to be "prostitution-free" by the state government under the PITA). A sex worker is anyone who earns their living by providing sexual services. ...
A sex worker is anyone who earns their living by providing sexual services. ...
Prostitution is the sale of sexual services. ...
The main points of the PITA are as follows:
Sex Workers
Sex workers plying their trade within 200 yards of a public place or notified area or soliticing customers in view of the public, is illegal and violators are subject to arrest and prosecution. A "public place" is any place accessible to or intended for use by the public and includes any form of public transportation.
Workinmg privately as a prostitute is not a crime, but at the request of a magistrate any sex worker may be removed from any place where they are working, and a brothel that contains two or more sex workers may be shut down. Brothels are establishments (usually illegal) specifically dedicated to prostitution and may be confined to special red-light districts in large cities. ...
Clients A client is guilty of consorting with prostitutes and can be charged if he engages in sex acts wioth a sex worker within 200 yards of a public place or notified area. The client may also be charged with rape if the sex worker is below sixteen years of age.
Pimps and Babus Babus or live-in lovers who live off a prostitute's earning are guilty ot a crime. Any adult male living with a prostitute is assumed to be guilty unless he can prove otherwise. The same law is applied to pimps and procurers and those who abet prositution.
Brothel-Keepers Landlords and brothel-keepers are guilty of breaking the law and can be prosecuted, but in practice this rarely occurs unless it is occuring in public view. Hotels can be temporarily or permanently shut down if they or any of their rooms are serving as a brothel of if any of the sex workers are under sixteen years of age. Forcing someone to remain at a brothel for the purpose of sexual exploitation is a violation and can be prosecuted.
Rescued Women The government is legally obligated to provide resuce and rehabilitation in a protective home for any sex worker requesting assistance.
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