The Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956

The Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956 is an Act of the Indian Parliament that aims to prevent trafficking of human beings and sexual exploitation for commercial purposes. The Act provides for the punishment of traffickers and those who engage in the business of prostitution. It also provides for the rehabilitation of victims of trafficking and prostitution. The Act defines trafficking of persons as the recruitment, transportation, transfer, or harboring of persons by means of threat, use of force or other forms of coercion, abduction, fraud, deception, abuse of power, or vulnerability, or giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation. Sexual exploitation is defined as the use of a person for the purpose of prostitution or for the production of pornographic material. The Act makes it an offence to keep, manage, or own a brothel, or to live on the earnings of prostitution. The Act also provides for the establishment of Protective Homes for the rehabilitation of victims of trafficking and prostitution.