Exploitation of a trafficked person 1
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Summary
Engaging someone for sexual exploitation when you know or have reason to believe they were trafficked is a crime. If the exploited person is a minor, the offender faces rigorous imprisonment for 5 to 7 years and a fine. If the exploited person is an adult who was trafficked, the punishment is rigorous imprisonment for 3 to 5 years and a fine.
Example
Priya runs a small parlour and hires Diya after learning Diya was brought in by traffickers to provide sexual services. Because Diya is a minor and was trafficked, Priya can be punished with rigorous imprisonment of 5 to 7 years and a fine under this section.
Bare Act
Enacted text(1) Whoever, knowingly or having reason to believe that a minor has been trafficked, engages such minor 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 seven 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 five years, and shall also be liable to fine.
1 Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2013
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