Patna High Court Directs Action Against Alleged Trafficking Of Children In Orchestra & Dance Groups In Bihar
In response to a public curiosity petition filed by Simply Rights for Youngsters Alliance and Affiliation for Voluntary Motion, alleging that minor youngsters are being trafficked and exploited beneath the guise of performing in orchestra, dance, and theatre teams in Bihar, the Patna Excessive Courtroom has ordered the State of Bihar to formulate a complete, multi-stakeholder, State-wide motion plan for the regulation, registration, and monitoring of orchestra, dance, and theatre teams.
The Division Bench comprising the Performing Chief Justice Ashutosh Kumar and Justice Partha Sarthy acknowledged, “Additionally it is anticipated from the State to take quick motion in case any such trafficking is reported in any of the orchestra/dance/ theater teams operating within the State of Bihar.” The Courtroom additionally held at paragraph 4, “Contemplating the general perspective of the circumstances beneath which this writ petition has been filed, we discover such request to be real.”
Accordingly, the Courtroom allowed the incorporation of a further prayer searching for a directive for State motion.
The Courtroom additionally directed the State to reply with urgency, “The State to reply to the petition by the following date with such immediacy as is required for this case.”
“Additionally it is anticipated from the State to take quick motion in case any such trafficking is reported in any of the orchestra/dance/ theater teams operating within the State of Bihar,’ the Courtroom added.
The petitioners have been represented by Senior Advocate Sanjay Singh and Advocate Vatsal Verma. By way of the plea, the petitioners sought the Courtroom’s intervention to direct the State authorities to plan a coordinated response to the difficulty
Thereby, the Excessive Courtroom directed not solely the State authorities but in addition particularly requested the Ladies and Little one Improvement Company (Respondent No. 9) to file a written response by the following listening to.
The matter is now scheduled to be taken up once more on twenty fifth July 2025.
Case Title: Simply Rights for Youngsters Alliance & Anr. v. State of Bihar & Ors.
Case No.: Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No. 9293 of 2025
