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Customers In Brothels Can Be Prosecuted For Immoral Trafficking: Kerala High Court
The Kerala High Court has ruled that individuals availing sexual services in brothels can be prosecuted under the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956 (ITP Act), holding that payment for such services amounts to inducing prostitution.
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Actor Shwetha Menon Goes To Kerala High Court To Set Aside Obscene Films Case
Shwetha Menon, who is contesting the upcoming election for AMMA president, has been booked under the IT Act and Immoral Trafficking Prevention Act
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What Is The Mann Act, The Law Used To Convict Sean 'Diddy' Combs
Sean "Diddy" Combs was convicted Wednesday of prostitution-related offenses under the federal Mann Act, an anti-sex trafficking law with a century-old history. Combs was still convicted of flying people around to engage in paid sexual encounters.
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Husband Of Punjab IAS Officer Arrested On Immoral Trafficking Charges
The husband of an IAS officer was held on charges of "immoral trafficking" after he was found with a woman at a house in Sarabha Nagar here during a raid, police said on Sunday.
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"I'm Threat To Conrad Sangma": Meghalaya BJP Leader Accused Of Trafficking
The BJP's Meghalaya leader Bernard N Marak -- under investigation for alleged immoral trafficking -- has claimed that he is meeting party leaders to apprise them about the "political conspiracy" against him.
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Punjab Police Busts Gambling, Trafficking Racket, 70 Arrested: Officials
The Punjab Police Sunday claimed to have busted an alleged gambling and immoral trafficking racket active in the Mohali district after arresting 70 people, including 10 women, during a late night operation at a city marriage palace, officials said.
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Sex Workers Cannot Use Law To Stop Eviction From Brothel: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on Friday said that sex workers even though not caught or convicted for immoral trafficking could not take the shelter of law to resist their eviction from a brothel.
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Rakesh Maria's Diktat to Mumbai Cops: Don't Harass Couples at Public Places
Faced with widespread outrage after mid-day reported on couples being picked up from hotel rooms in a raid at Madh and Aksa, Police Commissioner Rakesh Maria has issued a circular to his men, asking them to avoid trampling all over citizens' privacy, or face legal action
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Vasant Dhoble strikes again, arrests 31 in raid on a Mumbai bar
Mumbai Police's social service branch, which is headed by hockey stick-wielding cop Vasant Dhoble, raided a bar in suburban Mumbai on Friday night. The raid was conducted on Sangam Bar in Malad and the police say 14 bar girls were rescued and 28 customers and three employees of the bar were arrested. They have been booked under various sections of...
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Shelter home exploitation: cop held for destroying evidence
The Haryana police officer heading the probe into the sexual exploitation and physical and mental torture of inmates at the Apna Ghar shelter home in Rohtak has been arrested for destruction of evidence, police said on Friday.
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After nightclubs, now spas on cops' radar
As the pro and anti-Dhoble parties continue to seek their own justice, another establishment in the city came under the police's axe last week. Instead of the usual targets of nightclubs or restaurants, this time it was a spa whose owner was allegedly abused by the police, while her shop was vandalised in broad daylight.
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Why sex traders keep this cop's photo with them
He's no movie star. But assistant commissioner of police (ACP) Vasant Dhoble of Social Service (SS) branch apparently has his photographs lying around in people's desk drawers. Well, not just any people. During a a raid at a hotel Dhoble found his photographs from a drawer close to the cash counter. The staff allegedly revealed that they had been g...
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Actress arrested in sex racket charged Rs 1.5 lakh per hour: police
Small-time silver screen actress who was arrested in a raid on Saturday night, for allegedly running a high-profile sex racket in a multi star hotel, was sent to magisterial custody yesterday. Twenty-one-year-old Azhara Jan Gulam Ahmed Sheikh alias Zara, a native of Kashmir, has been arrested along with film industry spot boy Niraj Ashok Badhani (2...
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Customers In Brothels Can Be Prosecuted For Immoral Trafficking: Kerala High Court
The Kerala High Court has ruled that individuals availing sexual services in brothels can be prosecuted under the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956 (ITP Act), holding that payment for such services amounts to inducing prostitution.
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Actor Shwetha Menon Goes To Kerala High Court To Set Aside Obscene Films Case
Shwetha Menon, who is contesting the upcoming election for AMMA president, has been booked under the IT Act and Immoral Trafficking Prevention Act
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What Is The Mann Act, The Law Used To Convict Sean 'Diddy' Combs
Sean "Diddy" Combs was convicted Wednesday of prostitution-related offenses under the federal Mann Act, an anti-sex trafficking law with a century-old history. Combs was still convicted of flying people around to engage in paid sexual encounters.
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Husband Of Punjab IAS Officer Arrested On Immoral Trafficking Charges
The husband of an IAS officer was held on charges of "immoral trafficking" after he was found with a woman at a house in Sarabha Nagar here during a raid, police said on Sunday.
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"I'm Threat To Conrad Sangma": Meghalaya BJP Leader Accused Of Trafficking
The BJP's Meghalaya leader Bernard N Marak -- under investigation for alleged immoral trafficking -- has claimed that he is meeting party leaders to apprise them about the "political conspiracy" against him.
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Punjab Police Busts Gambling, Trafficking Racket, 70 Arrested: Officials
The Punjab Police Sunday claimed to have busted an alleged gambling and immoral trafficking racket active in the Mohali district after arresting 70 people, including 10 women, during a late night operation at a city marriage palace, officials said.
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Sex Workers Cannot Use Law To Stop Eviction From Brothel: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on Friday said that sex workers even though not caught or convicted for immoral trafficking could not take the shelter of law to resist their eviction from a brothel.
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Rakesh Maria's Diktat to Mumbai Cops: Don't Harass Couples at Public Places
Faced with widespread outrage after mid-day reported on couples being picked up from hotel rooms in a raid at Madh and Aksa, Police Commissioner Rakesh Maria has issued a circular to his men, asking them to avoid trampling all over citizens' privacy, or face legal action
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Vasant Dhoble strikes again, arrests 31 in raid on a Mumbai bar
Mumbai Police's social service branch, which is headed by hockey stick-wielding cop Vasant Dhoble, raided a bar in suburban Mumbai on Friday night. The raid was conducted on Sangam Bar in Malad and the police say 14 bar girls were rescued and 28 customers and three employees of the bar were arrested. They have been booked under various sections of...
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Shelter home exploitation: cop held for destroying evidence
The Haryana police officer heading the probe into the sexual exploitation and physical and mental torture of inmates at the Apna Ghar shelter home in Rohtak has been arrested for destruction of evidence, police said on Friday.
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After nightclubs, now spas on cops' radar
As the pro and anti-Dhoble parties continue to seek their own justice, another establishment in the city came under the police's axe last week. Instead of the usual targets of nightclubs or restaurants, this time it was a spa whose owner was allegedly abused by the police, while her shop was vandalised in broad daylight.
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Why sex traders keep this cop's photo with them
He's no movie star. But assistant commissioner of police (ACP) Vasant Dhoble of Social Service (SS) branch apparently has his photographs lying around in people's desk drawers. Well, not just any people. During a a raid at a hotel Dhoble found his photographs from a drawer close to the cash counter. The staff allegedly revealed that they had been g...
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Actress arrested in sex racket charged Rs 1.5 lakh per hour: police
Small-time silver screen actress who was arrested in a raid on Saturday night, for allegedly running a high-profile sex racket in a multi star hotel, was sent to magisterial custody yesterday. Twenty-one-year-old Azhara Jan Gulam Ahmed Sheikh alias Zara, a native of Kashmir, has been arrested along with film industry spot boy Niraj Ashok Badhani (2...
