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child laborers rescued from Railway station

31 Jul, 2015 10:50 IST
child laborers rescued from Railway station

  Hyderabad:  Secunderabad Government Railway Police rescued  94 young people  from different parts of the country  who were bought to Hyderabad to  work as laborers .

 Some of them are under 14 years, Secunderabad Railway Inspector A Anjaneyalu said, adding that most of them belong to Bihar, Jharkhand and Odisha. Based on information that child labourers were being brought here, a GRP team conducted searches and found 55 minors among 94 youth, the official said.

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 The minors have been shifted to a rescue home and further investigations are on, the official said. On July 26, as many as 14 minor boys were rescued by the city police from Secunderabad railway station after they claimed to have busted an inter-state human trafficking racket.

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