Yogesh K Porwar & Siddarath Sethia
Alert officials of Railway Protection Force on tuesday busted a suspected human trafficking racket and rescued 11 minor girls who were being brought to city from Jharkhand.
The victims aged between 14 and 15 years along with a minor boy aged 17 were brought to city for labour work , escorted by two men waiting outside the KSR railway station when ASI V.Bhagyalakshmi and Constable Navya KL,who were on rounds noticed the children and questioned the accused.
Since the duo did not give any satisfactory reply,the girls were rescued and handed over to child line while the two men escorting the children were handed over to the railway police for further investigations.
The police said that the rescued children are being counselled by members of Child Welfare Committee based on the outcome necessary action will be taken said Kusuma Hariprasad,ADRM in a release.