2012 INSC 0257
Budhadev Karmaskar
v.
State of West Bengal
(Supreme Court Of India)
HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ALTAMAS KABIR HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE
GYAN SUDHA MISRA
Criminal Appeal No. 135 Of 2010 | 23-03-2012

1. We have seen the Sixth Interim Report which has been filed by the
Committee appointed by this Court, for looking into the various questions
involving sex workers and their rehabilitation.

2. The said Report contains various ideas which need to be translated into
action, for which the support of the various Ministries involved is required, and
it may also be useful to involve the State Legal Services Authorities and the
National Legal Services Authority in the exercise, so that a composite plan may
be made ready for the purposes for which the Committee has been appointed.

3. Accordingly, let this matter stand over till 18th April, 2012, at 2.30 p.m. and
let this Bench be reconstituted on the said date for the said purpose.

4. On the said date, the Joint Secretaries in the Department of Women and Child
Development, Social Welfare Department, as also Ms. Aditi S. Ray, Senior
Economic Advisor in the Ministry of Women and Child Development, are
requested to be present to assist the Court. Dr. Charu Wali Khanna, Member,
National Commission for Women, Ms. Amita Agnihotri, Member Secretary,
National Commission for Women, Mr. U. Sarathchandran, Member Secretary
of the National Legal Services Authority and Ms. Asha Menon, Member
Secretary of the Delhi Legal Services Authority, are also requested to be present
for the said purpose. If it is not otherwise inconvenient, Prof. Shanta Sinha,
Chairperson of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights, is also
requested to be present.

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5. Leave is given to Mr. Anand Grover, learned senior counsel, to file an
additional affidavit in the matter to bring on record the facts relating to the
running of educational institutions, as also response to the Sixth Interim Report.
The other parties would also be at liberty to file their response to the Sixth
Interim Report by the next date.

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