11 Bru girls brought in pretext of job rescued in Agartala
Prompt action from the Child Line authorities and police helped to rescue 11 Bru girls from being pushed into the trap of child labor in Agartala on Wednesday.
All the girls had been shifted to a Child Line run shelter home and they would be produced before the Child Welfare Committee before being handed over to their family members.
According to Sources, the Child Line authorities got information that one person had been seen moving suspiciously at Chandrapur inter-state bus terminus with some minor girls. Soon, the Child Line members shared the inputs with the police who detained the man and took over the custody of the children.
A Child Line member Sangita Baruli, said, “We have been informed by our sources that one person is spotted in Chandrapur ISBT with a number of girls. We have shared the inputs with East Agartala women police station. The police have taken custody of the girls and also held the person who is leading them”.
It was later found out that the he had convinced the girls as well as their parents of lucrative salary for which they had to work as domestic helps in different parts of Agartala.
Baruli said, among the 11 girls, 2 were 18 years of age and rest of the others were minors. The person who had taken them along had been also asked not to leave the state as all of them would be produced before the Child Welfare Committee. Their parents were also contacted and they would also report before the CWC. According to her, three girls were already sent to Mandwi and Jirania for work and they were asked to report before the Child Line.
However, this incident indicated that a nexus involved in child labor is active in the city that has well connected roots across the state targeting people from backward section of the society and forcing children to work.
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