Hyderabad: Continuing the crackdown on child labour as part of Operation Muskaan-VII, Anti-Human Trafficking Unit (AHTU) of Rachakonda police, along with Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA), Telangana, on Tuesday night rescued 19 minor children employed as labour in two manufacturing companies.
In a late night operation, police, BBA, and other stakeholders rescued 16 children, including 14 girls, employed as child labourers by Venkateshwara traders, which manufactures paper egg cartons at Damara village near Choutuppal mandal under Rachakonda police commissionerate.
All these children are from Mandala district of Madhya Pradesh. After producing them before Child Welfare Committee (CWC) chairperson Jayasree of Yadadri district, police shifted them to Bless Worth Christian Association premises for shelter.
In another rescue operation, Rachakonda police and other stakeholders traced three minor girls working in godowns manufacturing sweets at Srinivasa Nagar in Abdulapurmet mandal of Hyderabad. Enquiries revealed that the girls are from Devarakonda village in Nalgonda district. They have been produced before the area CWC and provided shelter in Don Bosco, Rangareddy district.
Cases have been booked under sections 370(5) IPC (Trafficking of persons), 374 IPC (Unlawful compulsory labour) and several sections of JJ Act.
Rachakonda commissioner of police Mahesh M. Bhagwat appealed to public that wherever they notice children employed in hazardous occupations, they must inform Child line number 1098, Dial 100 or message WhatsApp No. 9490617111.
