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A 12-year-old Meena (name changed) would have ended up as yet another child employed in Delhi, had not a vigilant passenger on the train f Five children, two girls and three boys between the age of 12 to 17 years, rescued from the Hazrat Nizamuddin Railway station had been sold off to a trafficker by their guardians for anywhere between Rs 500 to Rs 7000. On October 3, when the Durg Sampark Kranti train chugged into the Nizamuddin Railway station from Chattisgarh, the government railway police (GRP), along with NGO CHETNA rescued the children and arrested the three traffickers. A case has been registered with the GRP. Ironically, the Capital on Friday marked two years of the ban on Child Labour after the amendments to the Central Act. Fourteen-year-old Piyush (name changed) told the NGO CHETNA that on September 30, while he was playing, three men came and gave some money to his elder brother claiming they would provide Piyush some work in Delhi. Meena told the Child Welfare Committee (CWC), where she and others were produced before being send to a welfare home for care and protection, that four men brought all five of them to Delhi. Director, CHETNA, Sanjay Gupta told timecity, "The rail route is most commonly used by the traffickers. Hence, the vigilance on the platforms needsto be enhanced,'' Gupta added. |
