Legal provisions regarding Importation of girl from foreign country under section 366B of Indian Penal Code, 1860.
Importation of girl from foreign country:
Section 366-B of Indian Penal Code provides that: “Whoever imports into India from any country outside India or from the State of Jammu and Kashmir any girl under the age of twenty-one years with intent that she may be, or knowing it to be likely that she will be, forced or seduced to illicit intercourse with another person, shall be punishable with imprisonment which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.”
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Section 366B, along with Section 366A was inserted in the Indian Penal Code in the year 1923 in pursuance of the International Convention for Suppression of the Traffic in Women and Children. Section 366B is intended to punish the export and import of girls for prostitution.
Section 366-B makes it an offence to import a girl under the specified age from any foreign country or the State of Jammu & Kashmir with intent or knowledge that she would be forced or seduced to illicit intercourse with another person.
This offence under Section 366-B is cognizable, non-bailable and non-compoundable and is exclusively triable by the Court of Session.
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Article 23 of the Constitution of India prohibited traffic in human beings. After coming into force of the Constitution of India this section was amended to bring it in accord with the changed circumstances.