Child-lifting racked busted, 100 kids rescued

Child-lifting racked busted, 100 kids rescued
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, June 19: The Delhi police today claimed to have rescued about 100 children who were being used as "bonded labourers" in unauthorised factories across the capital, and arrested 12 persons who allegedly kidnapped and sold them.

According to joint commissioner of police Amod Kanth, South district police have been conducting the rescue operation since the past few months and about 100 children have been rescued so far.

A country-wide network of agents allegedly used to lift these children from crowded places including railway stations and sell them to unauthorised factories, where they were made to work for months together without paying a single penny, Kanth told PTI.

"The operations are still on and more children are being rescued every day," he said, adding similar networks operated across the country and efforts were on to find any links between them.

Some of the rescued children have been sent to the "prayas' observation home at Ferozeshah Kotla, he said.