POCSO Act applies if victim of commercial sex trafficking is minor: Supreme Court

The Bench said a person's awareness that they are being employed in the sex industry or prostitution does not exclude them from being a victim of trafficking, as they may have been deceived about the conditions of work, which later turned out to be exploitative
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