IIT Delhi For Society

IIT Delhi For Society
presents
Be the Change
A Case Study Competition
Human Trafficking:
Status In India:
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The Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act or ITPA is a 1986 amendment of legislation passed in 1956
as a result of the signing by India of the United Nations' declaration in 1950 in New York on the
suppression of trafficking. The act, then called the All India Suppression of Immoral Traffic Act
(SITA), was amended to the current law. The laws were intended as a means of limiting and
eventually abolishing prostitution in India by gradually criminalising various aspects of sex work.
The main points of the IPTA are as follows:
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Sex Workers: A prostitute who seduces or solicits shall be prosecuted. Similarly, call girls can
not publish phone numbers to the public. (imprisonment up to 6 months with fine, point 8)
Sex worker also punished for prostitution near any public place or notified area. (Imprisonment
of up to 3 months with fine, point 7)
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Clients: A client is guilty of consorting with prostitutes and can be charged if he engages in sex
acts with a sex worker within 200 yards of a public place or "notified area". (Imprisonment of up
to 3 months, point 7) The client may also be punished if the sex worker is below 18 years of
age. (From 7 to 10 years of imprisonment, whether with a child or a minor, point 7)
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Pimps and babus: Babus or pimps are guilty of a crime. Any adult male living with a prostitute
is assumed to be guilty unless he can prove otherwise. (Imprisonment of up to 2 years with
fine, point 4)
Contd..
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Brothel: Landlords and brothel-keepers can be prosecuted, maintaining a brothel is illegal. (From
1 to 3 years imprisonment with fine for first offence, point 3) Detaining someone at a brothel for
the purpose of sexual exploitation can lead to prosecution. (Imprisonment of more than 7 years,
point 6)
Prostitution in a hotel is also a criminal offence.
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Procuring and trafficking: A person procures or attempts to procure anybody is liable to be
punished. Also a person who moves a person from one place to another, (human trafficking), can
be prosecuted similarly. (From 3 to 7 years imprisonment with fine, point 5)
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Rescued Women: The government is legally obligated to provide rescue and rehabilitation in a
"protective home" for any sex worker requesting assistance. (Point 21)
Public place in context of this law includes places of public religious worship, educational
institutions, hostels, hospitals etc. A "notified area" is a place which is declared to be "prostitutionfree" by the state government under the PITA. Brothel in context of this law, is a place which has
two or more sex workers (2a). Prostitution itself is not an offence under this law, but soliciting,
brothels, madams and pimps are illegal.
Although the law is made but it has not been implemented well because of various ambiguity in it
and involvement of millionaires in this industry.
Problem with didis:
A Source of light in the area:
Who Can Participate ?
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Registered college students can participate
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Students have to form a team of (maximum) 4.
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All team members should be from the same college
Rules and Regulations
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Max. Team Size: 5
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Deadline for submission is 10th March 2016 11:55pm.
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Top 10 teams will be selected for final round.
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The final round will be conducted in the Convention on 13th
March 2016
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In case of any disputes/discrepancies, the organizers'
decision will be final and binding.
Areas of Judgement
COMPLETENESS
Does the solution sufficiently
consider how it integrates with the
existing environment, handle
uncertainty and risks, and define an
end-to-end system that the
implementing team can execute?
SCALABILITY
Is the solution novel and creative
with the potential to scale and
provide sustained value for the
implementing team and its
stakeholders?
SUSTAINABILITY
VIABILITY
Is the solution which can sustain
over longer duration and is the
solution implementable in adverse
conditions?
As impressive as a solution may be,
is it feasible for the implementation
team to immediately take forward?
Submission Guidelines
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To register for the event click here
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For the preliminary round, the submissions should follow
the guidelines given here.
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Teams must mention the names of the members, their
respective colleges and contact details on the first page
of the report.
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The final presentation should have maximum 20 slides.
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You can take help from the internet and other sources
but do not copy them exactly. Mention references
whenever you use someone else’s work.