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National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has reportedly rescued at least 27 children, including two infants, from a a house in Delhi’s Shakurpur.
According to a newspaper report, NCPCR, Delhi Police and an NGO raided the four-storey house in Delhi's northwest colony to bust a human trafficiking network.
The rescued children were trafficked from Assam, Jharkhand, West Bengal and Odisha, and were kept in two dingy rooms of the four-storey building, an official told Times of India. Four of the seven traffickers who were keeping a watch over the children have been arrested, while three others, two of them women, are absconding, he said.
The police have also seized four registers with records of many children, whom the traffickers seemed to have either pushed into flesh trade or sold off as domestic helps in other states, the TOI report said.
The arrested have been identified as Murari, Qutab Mudeen, Ibrahim and Sarfaraz, who had been running the gang with the three others since the past few years, it said.
An NCPCR official told the paper that the raid was conducted after receving a complaint from Bachpan Bachao Andolan, the NGO. The complaint had mentioned two of these minor girls would be sold off for Rs 7 lakh each on Tuesday.
The rescued children include 22 girls and five boy. Two of the girls reportedly claimed that the infants were their children and cops will go for DNA tests of the infants.
The children were sent to Nari Niketan and their statements were recorded in front of a counsellor, a police officer told the media.
