Nagpur: A major child trafficking racket has been busted at Nagpur railway station on Tuesday when as many as 26 child laborers, all hailing from Bihar state, were rescued from Danapur Secunderabad Express on Tuesday. A joint team of Railway Protection Force (RPF), Central Railway (CR), officials of CR commercial wing, NGOs Vardaan and Nagpur railway childline rescued 26 minors from eight traffickers traveling in Danapur-Secunderabad Express on Tuesday. Another nine children were later rescued from the same train by RPF Chandrapur when it reached Ballarshah.

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The children hailing from Bihar and Madhya Pradesh came to the station in Danapur-Secunderabad Express. The action was probably the biggest rescue operation of minors being forced into child labor by human trafficking racketeers. After conducting a thorough search in the train, a total of 26 child laborers were deboarded from the train and taken to the RPF post. Sources informed that 12 children were being taken to the Badnera Station. Another group of minors was being taken to Secunderabad to work as assistants or helpers to painters and construction site workers.

Human traffickers by targetting the poor families, brought the children from Bihar to Secunderabad to work as child laborers in different glass manufacturing industries at Old City and Hyderabad city outskirts. This is the third incident where the officials rescued child laborers brought from Bihar and Madhya Pradesh in Danapur-Secunderabad Express. Sources informed that stale food was offered to the children when they deboarded from the train. The children had not eaten the food.

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