39 children rescued from traffickers

July 20, 2012 11:34 am | Updated November 16, 2021 11:46 pm IST - NEW DELHI:

Thirty-nine children were rescued and 20 alleged traffickers were arrested in a raid carried out by the Anti-Human Trafficking Unit of Delhi Police Crime Branch in coordination with a non-government organisation at Anand Vihar Railway Station in Delhi on Thursday.

According to a volunteer of the Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA), the children, aged between eight and 14, are from different parts of Bihar and Nepal and were travelling in the Seemanchal Express.

“They were travelling in small clusters in seven to eight different coaches of the train and most of the children were carrying fake identity proofs,” he said. The children were being trafficked to Delhi, Haryana and Jammu and Kashmir to be employed in construction, zari embroidery and glass bangle industries, he added.

Following the raid, the rescued children were produced before the Child Welfare Committee.

Explaining the various hurdles in checking repeated cases of child trafficking, Rajmangal Prasad, former chairperson of the South Delhi CWC, said: “The Government has serious shortage of human resources to tackle human trafficking. Lack of coordination between the labour department, which is responsible for rescuing the victims, and the Women and Child Welfare Department, which deals with their rehabilitation, often results in improper handling of the situation as recue and rehabilitation are closely linked.”

0 / 0
Sign in to unlock member-only benefits!
  • Access 10 free stories every month
  • Save stories to read later
  • Access to comment on every story
  • Sign-up/manage your newsletter subscriptions with a single click
  • Get notified by email for early access to discounts & offers on our products
Sign in

Comments

Comments have to be in English, and in full sentences. They cannot be abusive or personal. Please abide by our community guidelines for posting your comments.

We have migrated to a new commenting platform. If you are already a registered user of The Hindu and logged in, you may continue to engage with our articles. If you do not have an account please register and login to post comments. Users can access their older comments by logging into their accounts on Vuukle.