Exploitation of a trafficked person
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Summary
Knowingly, or when one has reason to believe a person was trafficked, anyone who engages that person for sexual exploitation is criminally liable. If the victim is a child below eighteen, the offender faces rigorous imprisonment for not less than five years and up to ten years, and a fine. If the victim is an adult trafficked person, the punishment is rigorous imprisonment for not less than three years and up to seven years, and a fine.
Example
Priya runs a small parlour. She knows, or has reason to believe, that 17-year-old Diya was trafficked and she engages Diya for sexual exploitation. Priya can be punished with rigorous imprisonment for five to ten years and a fine.
Bare Act
Enacted text(1) Whoever, knowingly or having reason to believe that a child below the age of eighteen years has been trafficked, engages such child for sexual exploitation in any manner, shall be punished with rigorous imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than five years, but which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.
(2) Whoever, knowingly by or having reason to believe that a person has been trafficked, engages such person for sexual exploitation in any manner, shall be punished with rigorous imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than three years, but which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine.
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