Target pimps not sex workers: MHA

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oncerned at the way police gun for the victims of human trafficking, sex workers, the Ministry of Home Affairs has told states to book pimps, brothel-owners and men who pay for sex.

In two advisories — that aim to lay down norms for the states to improve handling cases of human trafficking — the ministry has pulled up states for the way they handle violence against women and told them to take steps to end “honour killings”.

“The Centre and the states are going to intensify steps against human trafficking and crime against women,” Ajay Maken, Minister of State for Home Affairs, said on Saturday.

Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram had already ordered strengthening the anti-trafficking cell at MHA.

“Despite several steps being taken ... the picture is still very grim ... Complaints are still being received regarding non-registration of FIRs and unsympathetic attitude of police ... towards rape victims and victims of violence,” a MHA advisory to the states said.

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NCP, TC shadows of Congress : Modi

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CP and Trinamool Congress in Arunachal Pradesh are but shadows of Congress, while BJP is the 'real' non-Congress party, BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi said on Saturday.

BJP is the real non-Congress party fighting for uprooting Congress, which, he said, has become synonymous with corruption and price rise.

Whenever Congress came to power there was escalation in prices of rice, pulses and other essential items. During the A.B Vajpayee rule at the Centre the prices of sugar and rice was less than half of what it is now, Modi, who is also the deputy chief Minister of Bihar, told an election rally here.

In Arunachal Pradesh, the people had remained poor though the state was endowed with large natural resources as thousands of crores of rupees the Centre had granted during the long tenure of the Congress had been 'looted'.

States like Bihar, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh or Karnataka which are under BJP are progressing. "Laluji promised to make the roads like the cheeks of Hema Malini but failed and we did it in the last four years. Narendra Modi brought so much development in Gujarat in last 8 years, which the Congress could not achieve in 50 years", he claimed.

In Bihar an anti-corruption law has been promulgated for the first time in the country to confiscate property acquired through corrupt practices and reward informers. None could point a finger at Chief Minister Nitish Kumar but in Arunachal Pradesh the ruling Congress had purchased all the nine opposition BJP MLAs, including the leader of the opposition and engineered their defection.

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