{"id":10602,"date":"2021-06-30T14:15:07","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T14:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fighttrafficking.org\/?post_type=news_atc&p=10602"},"modified":"2021-06-30T14:54:58","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T14:54:58","slug":"begging-mumbai-police","status":"publish","type":"news_atc","link":"https:\/\/www.fighttrafficking.org\/demo\/news_atc\/begging-mumbai-police\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Begging a social crime’: Mumbai Police starts drive to make city beggar free"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Date: February 14, 2021
<\/strong>Source: India Today<\/strong>
<\/strong>Location:\u00a0 Mumbai, India<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Prerana’s Take :<\/strong> Initiatives like these require sensitivity on the part of the police. Post rescue, what happens to the rehabilitation of those who beg? What about their right to livelihood, and dignity?<\/em><\/p>\n

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To make Mumbai “begging free”, all police stations in the city have been directed to track down beggars and lodge them at a special home in Chembur after testing them for Covid-19.<\/p>\n

The “Zero Beggars” drive will be carried out throughout this month as per the directions issued by Joint Commissioner of Police Vishwas Nagre Patil to all zonal DCPs.<\/p>\n

The directions were issued under the Bombay Prevention of Begging Act 1959.<\/p>\n

“Begging is a social crime. All police stations have been instructed to detain these beggars, take permission from the court, conduct their Covid-19 tests and then lodge them at the beggars home,” said DCP (PRO) S Chaitanya.<\/p>\n

“The drive has been taken up to end the practice of people forcing children to engage in begging. Begging is a social crime, and it gives a bad image to a city like Mumbai,” a senior police official said.<\/p>\n

However, experts have raised questions on whether there was enough space to accommodate the beggars at the Chembur home and if they would be rehabilitated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Read the India Today Lounge (Source) article <\/span>here<\/a>.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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