Bihar Child Trafficking

Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Andhra Pradesh are the top three states with the maximum number of children trafficked between 2016 and 2022, while Delhi has seen an alarming 68 per cent rise from pre- to post-Covid times, according to a new study by an NGO

Taken to Jaipur on the promise of education and work, 22 children from Bihar were crammed into a small room and forced to make bangles for 18 hours a day. If they fell sick or dared to complain, they would be thrashed by the owner of the unit.

The Railway unit of the Delhi Police has rescued 14 children allegedly trafficked from different districts of Bihar to Delhi and arrested 10 people, officials said today.

A campaign against child trafficking was launched in Bihar on Tuesday by Kailash Satyarthi's foundation for children. The foundation claimed that the state was among the worst affected by the migrant crisis when lockdown was first announced.'Mukti Caravan', a campaign. which has been running in various parts of the country for many years, was launc...

A local court in Hyderabad sentenced two bangle businessmen hailing from Bihar to 14 years of rigorous imprisonment for trafficking minor boys.

As many as 17 child labourers, all hailing from Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Jharkhand states have been rescued at Secunderabad Railway station here, officials said today.

'Hyderabadi bangle's fame, now a circle of shame'. These are on the lines on which activists are planning a campaign to increase consumer awareness about the use of child labour in the making of Hyderabad's famous lac bangles.

Even as the first batch of 82 children, rescued from bangle-making units in Hyderabad, head back home to Bihar, shocking details have emerged that about 30 per cent of the rescued children had been rescued earlier. They had been brought back by traffickers to work for the very same employers in the same bangle-making units, within six months.

Nearly 350 children from Bihar have been rescued from bangle-making units in the Old City are in Hyderabad in the last one week. The children, aged between 8 and 18, were kept as bonded labour. But even after a week of being rescued, the children are still waiting to see their families.

Around 350 child labourers, mostly from Bihar, who were forced to work in hazardous industries here have been rescued over the past one week, a senior police officer said on Saturday.

Her 12-year-old grandson was rescued from a bangle-making factory in Hyderabad last Sunday. But at her village in Jehanabad, Shiv Ratni Devi says she's heard of his rescue only from us. Her first thought, where will the Rs.1000 per month the boy sends home every month, come from now.

It is 6 am on a cold morning in Gaya, 120 kms from Bihar's capital city of Patna. The train station here is in quantum activity mode, a ready store of passengers streaming through platforms, settling into trains.

A gang allegedly involved in kidnapping children and selling them for sacrifice was busted today in Mufassil police station area in Bihar's Katihar district.

The "rescue" of 579 children less than a fortnight ago from two trains which were on their way to Kerala from Jharkhand and Bihar has taken a curious turn.

An inter-state child trafficking racket, allegedly engaged in supplying children to orphanages in Kerala mostly from eastern states, has been unearthed by Railway police with the arrest of eight persons who had brought over 500 children to Kerala by train.

Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Andhra Pradesh are the top three states with the maximum number of children trafficked between 2016 and 2022, while Delhi has seen an alarming 68 per cent rise from pre- to post-Covid times, according to a new study by an NGO

Taken to Jaipur on the promise of education and work, 22 children from Bihar were crammed into a small room and forced to make bangles for 18 hours a day. If they fell sick or dared to complain, they would be thrashed by the owner of the unit.

The Railway unit of the Delhi Police has rescued 14 children allegedly trafficked from different districts of Bihar to Delhi and arrested 10 people, officials said today.

A campaign against child trafficking was launched in Bihar on Tuesday by Kailash Satyarthi's foundation for children. The foundation claimed that the state was among the worst affected by the migrant crisis when lockdown was first announced.'Mukti Caravan', a campaign. which has been running in various parts of the country for many years, was launc...

A local court in Hyderabad sentenced two bangle businessmen hailing from Bihar to 14 years of rigorous imprisonment for trafficking minor boys.

As many as 17 child labourers, all hailing from Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Jharkhand states have been rescued at Secunderabad Railway station here, officials said today.

'Hyderabadi bangle's fame, now a circle of shame'. These are on the lines on which activists are planning a campaign to increase consumer awareness about the use of child labour in the making of Hyderabad's famous lac bangles.

Even as the first batch of 82 children, rescued from bangle-making units in Hyderabad, head back home to Bihar, shocking details have emerged that about 30 per cent of the rescued children had been rescued earlier. They had been brought back by traffickers to work for the very same employers in the same bangle-making units, within six months.

Nearly 350 children from Bihar have been rescued from bangle-making units in the Old City are in Hyderabad in the last one week. The children, aged between 8 and 18, were kept as bonded labour. But even after a week of being rescued, the children are still waiting to see their families.

Around 350 child labourers, mostly from Bihar, who were forced to work in hazardous industries here have been rescued over the past one week, a senior police officer said on Saturday.

Her 12-year-old grandson was rescued from a bangle-making factory in Hyderabad last Sunday. But at her village in Jehanabad, Shiv Ratni Devi says she's heard of his rescue only from us. Her first thought, where will the Rs.1000 per month the boy sends home every month, come from now.

It is 6 am on a cold morning in Gaya, 120 kms from Bihar's capital city of Patna. The train station here is in quantum activity mode, a ready store of passengers streaming through platforms, settling into trains.

A gang allegedly involved in kidnapping children and selling them for sacrifice was busted today in Mufassil police station area in Bihar's Katihar district.

The "rescue" of 579 children less than a fortnight ago from two trains which were on their way to Kerala from Jharkhand and Bihar has taken a curious turn.

An inter-state child trafficking racket, allegedly engaged in supplying children to orphanages in Kerala mostly from eastern states, has been unearthed by Railway police with the arrest of eight persons who had brought over 500 children to Kerala by train.