Trafficking of women more heinous than drug peddling but law lenient: HC

Though trafficking of women and girls for commercial sexual exploitation is a more heinous crime than peddling drugs, the law makers have missed opportunities to prescribe stringent punishment for human trafficking, which attracts a lenient maximum three year jail term as against minimum 10 years for drug peddlers, says Odisha High Court.

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