Concerned over the flourishing human trafficking in the country, Dr. Justice A.S. Anand, Chairperson of the Commission has advocated development of a national action plan to weed out the "obscene threat to human dignity". "It no longer remains just a racket but has taken the shape of organized crime worth $8 million, he said. While addressing a seminar on ' Trafficking in Women and Children', held at the Institute of Social Sciences in New Delhi on 3 December 2004, Justice Anand also suggested that every police station should have a unit specialized to tackle this crime. Justice Anand also observed that sensitization of judicial officers, police officers and other stake holders is important as no amount of legislation or stringent penal provisions can be a substitute for a sensitized official.
In 2003, as many as 14,809 rape cases were registered in the country under the Section 376 of the IPC and 7,000 rape cases being registered alone in the past five month, he said. Women, he said, were now being exploited and treated as commodities more blatantly and prostitution, earlier restricted in remote corners, was now being openly practiced from precincts of five star hotels.
The Commission sponsored the seminar, which was for Judicial Magistrates, Police Officers, NGOs and Prosecutors.