petitioner was indulged in the work of providing labourers under the provisions of the Act, 1979 and license was issued by the Assistant Labour Commissioner, Bilaspur in the year 2007 and same was renewed in the year 2014. She would further submit that the contractor had to deal with the labourers of the District for which license was issued and in the present case license was issued for Bilaspur District only, for the purpose of migrating labourers to the other State, whereas, the respondent No. 5 to 17 are residents of District – Janjgir-Champa and no license was issued in this regard. She would further submit that the petitioner might have contravened some of the provisions of the Act, 1979 but has committed offence punishable under Section 370(2) of the IPC which deals with Trafficking of person and says whoever, for the purpose of exploitation, recruits, transports, harbours, transfers or receives a person or persons by using threats or using force, or any other form of coercion or by abduction or by practicing fraud, or deception or by abuse of power or by inducement including the giving or receiving of payments or benefits, in order to achieve the consent of any person having control over the person recruited, transported harboured, transferred or received, commits the offence of trafficking.
