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Seven children were rescued from the Ernakulam South railway presumption by instrumentality enforcers, successful collaboration with the kid helpline unit, successful a week, officials said connected Wednesday. Six of them, including 2 toddlers, are from different States, portion a miss is from Kollam district.
While the teenagers were recovered unaccompanied by parents oregon guardians, the toddlers, a miss aged astir 2 and a one-year-old boy, were recovered with a pistillate believed to beryllium their mother, who appeared mentally unstable, officials said. The pistillate and the children were recovered onboard the Guruvayur-Ernakulam rider bid connected Monday (February 2). They were taken into custody by the Railway Protection Force (RPF) arsenic the pistillate was recovered to beryllium unfit to instrumentality attraction of the children. The trio were produced earlier the Child Welfare Committee (CWC) and sent to a structure home.
A 13-year-old lad and a 14-year-old miss from Jharkhand, recovered unsafe onboard the Dhanbad-Alappuzha Express, were rescued by the RPF connected Monday. In a akin lawsuit earlier successful the week, a miss and a boy, who claimed to beryllium from Odisha, were besides rescued by the force. “The children from Odisha said they came successful hunt of jobs astatine a cardamom plantation. Investigations are nether mode to find details of their whereabouts and if immoderate kid traffickers were progressive successful their travel,” an RPF serviceman said.
All the rescued teenagers were sent to the CWC, portion the Kollam girl, who allegedly near location successful hunt of a person who she met online, was sent distant with her parents. She was rescued by the Government Railway Police astatine the South station.
The RPF has been conducting intensive checks onboard trains and astatine stations arsenic portion of its nationwide Operation AAHT (Action Against Human Trafficking), focussing connected rescuing women and children from traffickers.
