Bihar's Children Disappear On Trains, 'Sold' For Rs. 1500 Each | Read
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. In the compartment of a train headed to Jaipur are two brothers. They are unaccompanied; the older appears to be about 10. Activist Manoj Kumar asks them where they are headed. They say they are traveling to Jaipur. Both say they have been there before and were deposited in the compartment by a middleman who had organized jobs for them at an embroidery factory. They are too distraught to explain much more about their parents and are taken to a welfare home where they will be looked after till officials are able to contact their family.
