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The rescue of 24 runaway insignificant children from a madrasa successful Tumakuru district, successful Karnataka, has led to the registration of an FIR against the institution’s absorption implicit allegations of torture, forced labour, and harassment of students.
Based connected a ailment filed by Nagabhushan C., an authoritative attached to the District Child Protection Unit and Child Helpline, Kengeri, Bengaluru South, the Tumakuru Rural Police registered a lawsuit connected May 10 against the madrasa absorption nether provisions of the Juvenile Justice Act, Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), and kid labour laws.
According to the complaint, connected April 19, 2026, arsenic galore arsenic 24 children escaped from a madrasa, identified arsenic Jamia Arabia Hasaniya Trust, located successful Amalapura successful Tumakuru taluk. They were aboriginal rescued astatine the KSR Bengaluru Railway Station by Railway Protection Force unit and volunteers.
The children were subsequently produced earlier officials of the District Child Protection Unit, and the Child Welfare Committee for counselling and care.
During an enactment with officials connected April 23, the children alleged that they had fled the madrasa owed to carnal assault, harassment, and ill-treatment by unit members. They further alleged that they were being forced to enactment arsenic labourers successful the operation of a gathering connected the madrasa premises.
The ailment stated that the children told authorities they were unwilling to instrumentality to the institution, and wanted to spell backmost to their parents and autochthonal places.
Following directions from officials and members of the Child Welfare Committee, a ceremonial ailment was lodged seeking ineligible enactment against the madrasa absorption for allegedly subjecting children to cruelty and engaging them successful labour work. Students from Bihar — aged betwixt 9 and 17 years — deposed earlier the payment committee that they were fixed worm-infested rice, forced to enactment arsenic operation labourers wrong the madrasa, and were beaten up if they demanded to spot their parents.
Initially, a lawsuit was registered astatine the Bengaluru City Railway Police nether Sections 75, 79 and 82 of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, Section 146 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, and Sections 3, 3(A), 14 and 14(1) of the Child and Adolescent Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986 and 2016 amendments.
As the alleged offences autumn nether the jurisdiction of Tumakuru district, the lawsuit was transferred to the Tumakuru Rural Police Station for further investigation.
