How did the begger women exploit the situation?
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The first legal measure against begging and vagrancy in India was the European Vagrancy Act, 1874, which was meant for people of European descent. Since then there have been various legal provisions to outlaw begging in different parts of the country. The current legal definition of a beggar in India has its roots in the Bombay Prevention of Begging Act (BPBA), 1959, and defines a beggar as anyone “having no visible means of subsistence, and wandering about or remaining in any public place in such condition or manner, as makes it likely that the person doing so exists by soliciting or receiving alms.” The Act also includes “soliciting or receiving alms in a public place, whether or not under any pretence of singing, dancing, fortune-telling, performing or offering any article for sale.”
In August 2018, a historic `judgment` of the Delhi High Court held some provisions of the state’s anti-begging law unconstitutional. However, such laws exist in at least 20 other states and union territories.
Due to the lack of engagement with the problem, begging remains a highly stigmatised activity about which little is known to the public besides popular urban myths of an insidious begging mafia, and the stereotype of the lazy, negligent mother exploiting her children to earn an income