ORDER

"Frailty, thy name is woman", was the ignominy heaped upon women of Victorian Era by William Shakespeare in his great work 'Hamlet'. The history of sociology has, however, established the contrary, i.e., 'fortitude', thy name is woman; 'caress', thy name is woman; 'self-sacrifice', thy name is woman; tenacity and successful pursuit, their apathetical is women. Indira Gandhi, Margaret Thatcher, Srimovo Bhandarnaike and Golda Meir are few illustrious women having proved successful in democratic governance of the respective democratic States. Amidst them, still, a class of women is trapped as victims of circumstances, unfounded social sanctions, handicaps and coercive forms in the flesh trade, optimised as 'prostitutes', (for short, 'fallen women'). Seeking their redemptions, a few enlightened segments are tapping the doors of this Court under Article 32 of the Constitution, through a public spirited advocate, Gaurav Jain who filed, on their behalf, the main writ petitions claiming that right to be free citizens; right not to be trapped again; readjusted by economic empowerment, social justice and self-sustenance thereby with equality of status, dignity of person in truth and re