NEW DELHI: Allowing the plea of 15 Andhra Pradesh women rescued from a red light area here who were opposing their transfer to their home state from a reform home in the capital, the Delhi High Court today directed that they be released immediately.Setting aside the trial court’s order granting their transit remand to the AP police, judges S Ravindra Bhat and S P Garg directed the release of the sex workers. The bench passed the order after the National and Delhi Commissions for Women, which was asked by the court to assist it in the rehabilitation of these women, informed the court that there was no such scheme and it would take some time to formulate the policy.Disposing of a petition filed by the women, the court said these women could not be kept at the home till the formulation of any scheme for their rehabilitation and ordered their release forthwith. The women in their plea sought the court’s intervention as they were forcibly removed from here despite their unwillingness to go back to their home state.
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