The above-mentioned activities entail severe penalties such as severe custodial sentences from the first case of conviction. The minimum penalty for possession of a brothel is imprisonment for not less than one year and not more than three years, and a fine of up to two thousand rupees. Placing a girl in prostitution is punishable by a severe prison sentence of at least seven years, but can be up to life imprisonment. Seduction or incitement to prostitution under the unchanged First Conviction Act shall be punishable by imprisonment for six months or a fine of five hundred rupees, and for the second sentence imprisonment for up to one year or a fine of five hundred rupees. In addition, under Section 370A, the Indian Penal Code punishes an offender for exploitation of a trafficked minor with imprisonment for five to seven years. By the way, even though sex work is not illegal in India, existing legal regulations make it difficult for any sex worker or prostitute to practice it, and they can even be reserved for canvassing. As with other socially taboo professions, there is a grey area and ambiguity in the exercise of it. This law weakens the suppression of prostitution among women and girls and achieves a public objective, namely to save fallen women and girls and eradicate them from prostitution and to give these fallen victims every opportunity to become decent members of society.[3] The Act seeks to criminalize the above-mentioned acts, which amount to prostitution, and empowers the police to abduct them, close brothels and transfer them to institutions that they can reform. It empowers the central government to establish a special court to try offences under the Act. Is it legal to run a prostitution website in India? Under section 7 of the Prevention of Immoral Traffic Act 1956, the existence of red light zones in the vicinity of public places such as schools, colleges, temples, etc. is prohibited and punished.

However, there is no provision that says that the red light zone as such is illegal. Prostitution is considered taboo in India, is not openly discussed and is often frowned upon. However, it poses a great threat to the fabric of Indian society as it weakens the institution of marriage, sexually transmitted diseases, abduction of girls, isolation of prostitutes from society, physical and psychological trauma, etc. There are reportedly about 38,000 sex workers in Delhi. The situation in Mumbai is more depressing. This creates an emerging need to control prostitution. Now the situation is such that the above activities are very real and coexist. Does the Indian legal system make prostitution illegal by banning it? For in most cases, government officials tend to ignore the fact that illegal trafficking in women and children is the main cause of the increase in prostitution as a business. In addition, the Supreme Court has stated that if a sex worker files a complaint, she will be treated like any other complaint and she will not be treated as a criminal but as a complainant. In practice, SITA is not widely used. The Indian Penal Code (IPC), which predates SITA, is often used to accuse sex workers of vague crimes such as „public indecency” or „public nuisance” without explicitly defining what they are. In 1986, the old Act was amended as the Prevention of Immoral Trafficking Act or ITPA.

Attempts to change this by criminalizing clients[48] have been rejected by the Ministry of Health[49] and have met with considerable resistance. [50] In a positive development to improve the lives of sex workers in Calcutta, a state-owned insurance company provided life insurance to 250 people. [51] Various fiction films have dealt with the subject of prostitution in India, including Slumdog Millionaire (2008),[79] Chaarfutiya Chhokare (2014), Manoranjan (1974), Soothradharan (2001), Calcutta News (2008), Lakshmi (2014),[80] among others. The Indian Penal Code of 1860 also deals with prostitution; However, it focuses on child abduction and prostitution. According to articles 372 and 373, it is illegal to buy, sell or import minors for the purpose of prostitution. ITPA defines „prostitution” as the sexual exploitation or abuse of a woman for pecuniary purposes and a „prostitute” is the person who receives this commercial benefit. The Indian Penal Code of 1860 also deals with prostitution, but is limited to child prostitution. However, it tries to combat activities such as kidnapping in general, kidnapping for the purpose of seduction and seduction of a person for sexual purposes, importing a girl from a foreign country for sexual purposes, etc.

Prostitution means sex work for money. It indicates not only sexual satisfaction, but also other accompanying acts such as solicitation, brothel management, pimping or treatment of prostitutes, sex trafficking and other activities that facilitate prostitution and thus promote the growth of the sex industry. Voluntary sex work is legal in India, but human trafficking for sexual purposes is punishable. The issue of prostitution has become the order of the day, and government agencies are obliged to address this problem as soon as possible. Legalizing prostitution seems more practical and feasible than trying to abolish prostitution, as the government has been trying to do for decades and has barely reached that mark. The lives of prostitutes are sad and it is up to society to develop, which could be catalyzed by government institutions. The male prostitution industry is still not legally recognized and requires the attention it deserves. In this sense, laws should be amended to include men as well as women. In the Indian context, prostitution is not explicitly illegal, although it is declared unethical by the court, certain acts that facilitate prostitution are considered illegal and acts such as running a brothel, subsisting on money raised through prostitution, recruiting or inciting a person to prostitution, trafficking in children and women for prostitution, etc.

are explicitly made illegal by the Prevention of Immoral Trafficking Act 1956 (ITPA). For example, sex racketeering is illegal, but private prostitution or receiving compensation in exchange for consensual sex without prior request may not be illegal. Prostitution is legal in India, but only with certain restrictions and restrictions. Prostitution is not technically prohibited in India as it is not explicitly classified as a crime by law. Certain conduct related to prostitution, such as brothel keeping under section 3, recruitment, human trafficking and pimping, is punishable in India under section 5 of the Prevention of Immoral Trafficking Act, 1956. This law essentially states that prostitutes can start their business in private, but cannot act in public.