Aligarh: Uttar Pradesh police took out an overnight operation and busted a child trafficking racket. The officials arrested 16 accused on Monday, adding six kidnapped kids were rescued in the operation.

The child trafficking victims were rescued during an operation conducted in Aligarh. The operation was held in nearer areas as part of the special anti-human trafficking 'Operation Khushi.' The search activity was conducted on a tip-off, police nabbed three persons near a crossing at village Borna under Mahuakheda police station area on Sunday evening. Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Kalanidhi Naithani informed ''they told police that four kidnapped children were being held in a house in Ganga Nagar colony under Gandhi park police station area.'' Two of the children had gone missing from Ghaziabad and four from Aligarh, Naithani said, dubbing the overnight action as 'unprecedented'. The planning of kidnapping children was done by male members of the gang. A nexus across the state would kidnap children and hand them over to the women, who would then sell them off to childless couples for Rs 50,000 each and sometimes even in lakhs of rupees.

Uttar Pradesh police teams that carried out the rescue operation under the supervision of Superintendent of Police Kuldeep Singh Gunawat have been rewarded.  The children have been handed over to their families. Legal proceedings against the gang members are underway. While Naithani said 'Operation Khushi' involving the anti-human trafficking unit was launched in view of increasing cases of abduction of children.

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