I was surfing the net yesterday when I found a kolkata based Online Escort Service on this url - https://escort. Net. In/ . My questions are:- 1) Are these home escorts legal in India? 2) Why is this site still on the Internet. I am a law student and I am curious.

1) Escort services are very legal in India

2) If Escort services are legal in India then they also have the right to be online

Explanation:

Prostitution is legal in India.

According to an article, commercial sex operations is the oldest profession in India.  So in a rather intricate twist, whilst prostitution is legal, its related activities are not. Activities such as pimping, owning, and managing a brothel is illegal.

Some of the major cities where these related activities take place are Mumbai, Delhi, and Kolkata, and they are operational in very large numbers.

The act which regulates such activities (that is prostitution and its ancillary activities) and defines the parameters under which they may be practiced is the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act or ITPA.

The act prohibits prostitutes from advertising themselves. The website uses the word escort, instead of prostitutes also, they have removed from their contact page a physical location except for a phone number and an email. So even if they can be proven to have broken any laws, it may be difficult to trace them.

In addition, given that the "escorts" didn't give out their number, and it cannot be proven from the website that they are carrying out their activities within locations that are very close to public places, the legal action against them may be limited if not impossible.

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