Shafiq Ur Rahman Khan

THE BONDED LABOUR SYSTEM (ABOLITION) ACT, 1976 ACT NO. 19 OF 1976 [9th February, 1976.] An Act to provide for the abolition of bonded labour system with a view to preventing the economic and physical exploitation of the weaker sections of the people and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. BE it enacted by Parliament in the Twenty-seventh Year of the Republic of India as follows:-- CHAP PRELIMINARY CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY 1. Short title, extent and commencement. 1. Short title, extent and commencement.- (1) This Act may be called the Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, 1976. (2) It extends to the whole of India . (3) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 25th day of October, 1975. 2. Definitions. 2. Definitions.- In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-- (a) "advance" means an advance, whether in cash or in kind, or partly in cash or partly in kind, made by one person (hereinafter referred to as the creditor) to another person (h...

vi. The trafficker and the law The immoral traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956 (ITPA) (originally known as suppression of immoral traffic In women and girls Act 1956, was passed on may 9, 1950 However, even before the enactment of this Act, the Indian penal code contained several sections that criminalise trafficking of person as a heinous offence, indicating that lawmakers had always been aware of its seriousness the TIPA and the relevant provisions of the IPC together from a campsite code that must be used to prosecute and convict the trafficker. Though the trafficker is the main focus of the TIPA containing five complete sections detailing the offences constituting the ingredients of trafficking, (sections 3, 4, 5, 6,and 8), as stated earlier, in practice it is only the sections directed against the prostitute/victim that are invoked during implantation of the Act, both at the stage of filing of charge-sheet by the police and of framing of charges by the magistrate. Des...