New Delhi [India]: The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has written to all the states and the Union Territories (UTs) to focus on "countering trafficking in persons" by integrating the Naveen Nyaya Sanhita (three new criminal laws) and using technology, as well as the essential role of state leadership and ownership to curb the menace, which it stressed as an "important priority" of the Central government to prevent and combat the crime of human trafficking.
In the five-page letter issued on August 28 by the MHA's Women Safety Division, the chief secretaries and Directors General of Police (DGP) from of all states and the UTs were asked to enforce the provisions of the Naveen Nyaya Sanhita-- the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 and Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023-- to their "maximum potential" with complete administrative vigour as the roll-out phase of the laws is now completed, noting it is an "exclusive mandate of the states and UTs" to make sure the enforcement of the new criminal justice system.
