1997 (7) TMI 597

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....e respondents to provide separate schools with vocational training, hostels, with the medical check-up facilities in each respondent state and union territory and such other places where this Hon'ble Court may direct, for the children of prostitutes, upto the age of sixteen years to rescue them, from falling into the infernal existence and the same immoral and deproved way of life by inducing in the vice profession of prostitution, dimps, drug-pushers and bootleggers and other hazardous employments: b) pass my other order/orders which this Hon'ble Court may does fit and proper in the circumstances of the case." By order dated February 20, 1989 the petitioner was directed "to suitably amend the writ petition and confine claim in the petiti....

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.... was an issue involved in these proceedings or subject matter of Committee's deliberations. The committee in its report which runs into over 100 pages has only referred in two paragraphs, while examining target group, as to who are the prostitutes. Apart from this I do not find there is any discussion in the report of the Committee towards eradication of prostitution. As to what should be the scheme to be evolved to eradicate prostitution, i.e. the source itself; the basics; and what succour and sustenance can be provided to the fallen victims of flesh trade was not a question agitated in the proceedings. Certainly no one can dispute that evil of prostitution must be curbed. It is the mandate of the Constitution which prohibits traffic in h....