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NHRC aid sought to rehabilitate sex workers

Staff Correspondent

NEW DELHI: The Bhartiya Patita Uddhar Sabha (BPUS), a non-government organisation that works for the rights of sex workers, has submitted a memorandum to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), urging its intervention to help rehabilitate over 1,000 displaced sex workers in Surat.

The memorandum said that sex workers residing in the Chakla Bazaar area had been forced to move out because of a notification issued by Surat Commissioner of Police K.N. Sharma in 1999 under the Immoral Trafficking Prevention Act.

On the basis of the notification, which came into force in 2000, the police locked the premises occupied by the sex workers and their children.

In July 2004, the police sealed off four buildings in Chakla Bazaar.

The memorandum said that on the basis of an earlier complaint by the BPUS, the NHRC had deputed Justice K. Ramaswamy to look into the matter.

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