The city police have invoked the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 against the accused who were running a flesh trade at an illegal spa raided and shut down by the police recently.
The victims in two of the recent cases belong to the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. These victim were lured into the racket with a promise of good jobs, then cheated and forced into flesh trade. “Hence, we have invoked the SC-ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, apart from other laws meant to tackle human trafficking,” said City Police Commissioner B. Dayananda
The city police have cracked the whip on illegal spas that had mushroomed across the city and employed women therapists from different parts of the country and also women from neighboring countries often forcing them into flesh trade.
