Child Prostitution, India becoming a Hub observes SC

Child Prostitution, India becoming a Hub observes SC

New Delhi

India is "becoming a hub" for largescale child prostitution rackets, the Supreme Court said today and suggested the establishing of a special investigating agency to tackle the menace. As reported by Press Trust Of India.

A bench of Justices Dalveer Bhandari along with A K Patnaik asked Solicitor General Gopal Subramaniam to examine the concept of setting up a special investigating agency to combat child prostitution rackets and assured that courts would deny bail to those who engage children in commercial sex.

"It's happening as a result of abject poverty in the country.

This can be also because of the very high and largescale unemployment. All our cultural ethos are going down the drain.

India is growing a hub of such activities," the apex court said while going through a PIL filed by an NGO Bachapan Bachao Andolan.