The Bombay High Court on Wednesday said offences under anti-human trafficking law have social and cultural ramifications while directing the Union and Maharashtra governments to give an update on the implementation of legislation. The court, according to PTI, directed them to file affidavits stating of the apparatus contemplated per the legislation was functional or not. 

A division bench of Chief Justice DK Upadhyaya and Justice Arif Doctor was hearing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by a non-governmental organisation (NGO) 'Rescue Foundation'. They claimed in their plea that provisions of the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act are not being implemented by the authorities.