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Panels to curb trafficking

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"Laws needed to punish sex trade customers and make profiteers to compensate victims"

CHENNAI: Monitoring committees comprising representatives from the judiciary, the executive and the legislature are to be formed at the State and district level to curb trafficking in human beings. The resolution was adopted at a workshop on the role of judiciary in constitution of monitoring committee, prevention, rehabilitation and development of victims protection protocol here on Saturday.

The workshop also decided that the police, judicial and executive officials be sensitised to these issues by the Tamil Nadu State Judicial Academy. Free legal aid shall be provided to the victims/survivors of trafficking and HIV/AIDS, said G.M. Akbar Ali, Member-Secretary, Tamil Nadu State Legal Services Authority. Bringing in laws to punish commercial sex trade customers and making the profiteers of trafficking, including brothels, to compensate victims are among the suggestions made by Justice P.D. Dinakaran, judge of the Madras High Court, to curb human trafficking. He said new laws making trafficking in human beings a non-bailable offence, allowing for confiscation of assets and profits of traffickers should be enacted. Justice P. Sathasivam of the Madras High Court stressed the need for sensitising the judiciary and the police. He called for concerted efforts from the judiciary, the legislature and the executive to combat trafficking and HIV/AIDS.

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