Regulate placement agencies, court tells Delhi

New Delhi: Worried about the mushrooming growth of placement agencies in India's national capital, the Delhi High Court has asked the state government to make laws to regulate the functioning of such agencies. Stressing that there was an urgent need for laws and guidelines to regulate the sector, a division bench headed by Chief Justice Ajit Prakash Shah and Justice Sanjeev Khanna on Wednesday asked the government to frame a draft and submit it to the court, reports IANS. The court was hearing a petition filed by an NGO Shramjivi Mahila Samiti. The petition alleged that minor girls from West Bengal, employed as maids, were badly treated and even sexually harassed by the placement agency owners. The court refuted the government's stand that it was asking the placement agencies to register themselves under the Shops and Establishment Act. "This is not going to solve any purpose as it will only tell the number of agencies in the capital. Our concern is to regularise these so that no illegal activities take place," the court said.

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