Child Labourers Rescued

A poverty-stricken labourer in Assam's Dhemaji district allegedly sold his 25-day-old infant for Rs 30,000, prompting intervention from the Child Welfare Committee (CWC), which rescued the baby from the home of a doctor, officials said on Tuesday.

Uttar Pradesh's Bhadohi police and Labour Enforcement Department personnel on Tuesday raided Samajwadi Party MLA Zahid Beg's house here and rescued a 14-year-old girl engaged in child labour, officials said.

The Delhi High Court has approved the joint suggestions about the immediate financial assistance and recovery of back wages for rescued child labourers and issued directions to the Delhi Government to adopt the mechanism in the post-rescue protocol f

As many as 26 children hailing from West Bengal and Jharkhand, who were being brought to Hyderabad allegedly to work as labourers were rescued and eight "traffickers" were arrested at the Secunderabad Railway Station here, the Telangana Police said.

Nine children, who were illegally employed at a garmentfactory in Noida, have been rescued by the Anti-Human Trafficking Unit (AHTU) of the Gautam Buddh Nagar police, officials said on Wednesday.

From working in a mica mine in Jharkhand's Giridih district as a child labour to representing India in a global event by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) at Durban - the journey has been long for Badku Marandi.

A construction contractor in Greater Noida was arrested on Thursday for allegedly kidnapping a one-and-a-half-year-old son of a daily-wage labourer working for him and the child was rescued safely within three hours from his possession, police said.

Eleven boys, including an eight-year-old, working as bonded labourers were rescued from several places in north Delhi's Samaypur Badli area, a child rights body said on Sunday.

Four people were arrested in Hyderabad for allegedly trafficking and engaging 26 child labourers, including eight girls, from six states in different workshops, police said on Wednesday.

More than 60 children, 13 of them girls, have been rescued from two factories in the national capital where they were employed as virtual bonded labourers for nearly two years.

Deputy Commissioner of Police (Women and Child Safety) Vrinda Shukla said a larger campaign is underway in entire Uttar Pradesh with a focus on rescuing children engaged in beggary.

The Gautam Buddh Nagar police on Wednesday rescued 11 minors engaged in child labour at hotels and shops in Noida and Greater Noida, officials said.

The Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights (DCPCR) rescued 12 child labourers from a garment factory and motorcycle repair shops in the Gandhi Nagar area of Delhi today.

Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi urged the country on Friday to help rescue child labourers caught amid coronavirus lockdown after a young girl died of exhaustion while walking back to her village.

A team of the Rajasthan and Gujarat child rights commissions, the former's anti-human trafficking unit and an NGO jointly rescued 138 children in the 10-16 age group from Gujarat's Surat on Sunday, officials said.

A poverty-stricken labourer in Assam's Dhemaji district allegedly sold his 25-day-old infant for Rs 30,000, prompting intervention from the Child Welfare Committee (CWC), which rescued the baby from the home of a doctor, officials said on Tuesday.

Uttar Pradesh's Bhadohi police and Labour Enforcement Department personnel on Tuesday raided Samajwadi Party MLA Zahid Beg's house here and rescued a 14-year-old girl engaged in child labour, officials said.

The Delhi High Court has approved the joint suggestions about the immediate financial assistance and recovery of back wages for rescued child labourers and issued directions to the Delhi Government to adopt the mechanism in the post-rescue protocol f

As many as 26 children hailing from West Bengal and Jharkhand, who were being brought to Hyderabad allegedly to work as labourers were rescued and eight "traffickers" were arrested at the Secunderabad Railway Station here, the Telangana Police said.

Nine children, who were illegally employed at a garmentfactory in Noida, have been rescued by the Anti-Human Trafficking Unit (AHTU) of the Gautam Buddh Nagar police, officials said on Wednesday.

From working in a mica mine in Jharkhand's Giridih district as a child labour to representing India in a global event by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) at Durban - the journey has been long for Badku Marandi.

A construction contractor in Greater Noida was arrested on Thursday for allegedly kidnapping a one-and-a-half-year-old son of a daily-wage labourer working for him and the child was rescued safely within three hours from his possession, police said.

Eleven boys, including an eight-year-old, working as bonded labourers were rescued from several places in north Delhi's Samaypur Badli area, a child rights body said on Sunday.

Four people were arrested in Hyderabad for allegedly trafficking and engaging 26 child labourers, including eight girls, from six states in different workshops, police said on Wednesday.

More than 60 children, 13 of them girls, have been rescued from two factories in the national capital where they were employed as virtual bonded labourers for nearly two years.

Deputy Commissioner of Police (Women and Child Safety) Vrinda Shukla said a larger campaign is underway in entire Uttar Pradesh with a focus on rescuing children engaged in beggary.

The Gautam Buddh Nagar police on Wednesday rescued 11 minors engaged in child labour at hotels and shops in Noida and Greater Noida, officials said.

The Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights (DCPCR) rescued 12 child labourers from a garment factory and motorcycle repair shops in the Gandhi Nagar area of Delhi today.

Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi urged the country on Friday to help rescue child labourers caught amid coronavirus lockdown after a young girl died of exhaustion while walking back to her village.

A team of the Rajasthan and Gujarat child rights commissions, the former's anti-human trafficking unit and an NGO jointly rescued 138 children in the 10-16 age group from Gujarat's Surat on Sunday, officials said.