14 June 2016: On Monday 27 children from were rescued by the local NGO and police personnel team at Thane Station. Around 70 children who are below 17 and the youngest one among have been trafficked to Mumbai.
According to the source, it is learnt that these children were headed by 21 adults and were travelling to Mumbai boarding in Jansadharan Express from Bihar.
A source Mr. Kishore Bhamre, an NGO worker on child rights of Pratham said that the information reached the organization regarding the trafficked children around 70 were boarding the train from Raxual of Bihar.
Later Mr. Bhamre who is the director of the Pratham council for vulnerable children alerted his teams and also the RPF. The team along with the RPF personnel reached the station for the rescue, the train’s last halt, as per the report.
Mr. Bhamre said that around 25 people of his team and the RPF personnel team according to the plan were waiting at the Kurla station and four members of Pratham boarded the train at Nashik in order to track these children who were heading towards Mumbai being trafficked. But the last stop of the train have changed on Monday, that work against their plan to detained these children’s, and by the time the teams could reach the railway stop in Thane, only 27 children were left, said the officials.
The RPF officials said that the RPF personnel teams were informed by Pratham and accordingly, they have assisted the rescue of these children’s. All these children were below age 17. It was learnt that these children were accompanied by the adults, some of them have a relation to these adults and some of them are from the same village. These children said that they were travelling for the purpose of sight-seeing.
According to the RPF teams, 14 adults have been registered by the government railway police in connection to these heinous trafficking. The government railway police are investigating on this matter, said the GRP officials.
