"The draft of the Delhi Private Placement Agencies (Regulation) Bill, 2012 is ready and suggestions are being invited and it would be presented before the assembly in February next year," the counsel for Delhi Government told a bench of Acting Chief Justice A K Sikri and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw.
The copy of the draft legislation was placed on court's record during the hearing of a plea of NGO Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA) seeking the court's direction for formulation and implementation of a "strong policy" to curb trafficking of girl and child workers by unregistered and unregulated placement agencies.
The court had earlier asked city police and the Delhi government to ensure registration of all placement agencies and probe allegations that some of them were involved in trafficking of maid servants.
Meanwhile, the bench, which was hearing another PIL filed by the same NGO on the issue of child workers employed here, asked the city government to file by July 30 a status report, detailing the progress made in rescue operation of the child workers and their subsequent rehabilitation plans.
Allowing the plea, made through senior advocate H S Phoolka, the court said the premises, from where child workers have been rescued, be remained sealed till the errant owners deposit a fine of Rs 20,000 per child with the city government.
The court then asked the government to file a status report on July 30, the next date of hearing. (More)
