RANCHI: As many as 54 girls, 17 of them minors, were rescued from Ranchi-New Delhi SamparkKranti Express on Friday night. The girls were rescued from different stations like Kanpur, Firozabad and Ghaziabad.
Prem Lal, a vendor at Kanpur Central station, got to know that the girls were being taken from Jharkhand to Delhi to work as bonded labourers and informed Childline Kanpur. Dharmendra Kumar Ojha of Childline Kanpur said, "We immediately raided the train and rescued 17 girls and informed the Childline centres of other stations to raid the train."
As the Childline of Firozabad and Ghaziabad got to know about the girls being on the train, they got the train stopped at the respective stations and rescued 15 and 22 girls from both the stations.
Rishi Kant, a member of Shakti Vahini, a Delhi-based NGO, said, "We also got the information and were waiting at Delhi railway station but all the girls were rescued at other stations. In the rescue operation, three traffickers have also been caught."
IG, CID, Anurag Gupta said a team of officers would be sent to the towns to bring back the girls.
Prem Lal, a vendor at Kanpur Central station, got to know that the girls were being taken from Jharkhand to Delhi to work as bonded labourers and informed Childline Kanpur. Dharmendra Kumar Ojha of Childline Kanpur said, "We immediately raided the train and rescued 17 girls and informed the Childline centres of other stations to raid the train."
As the Childline of Firozabad and Ghaziabad got to know about the girls being on the train, they got the train stopped at the respective stations and rescued 15 and 22 girls from both the stations.
Rishi Kant, a member of Shakti Vahini, a Delhi-based NGO, said, "We also got the information and were waiting at Delhi railway station but all the girls were rescued at other stations. In the rescue operation, three traffickers have also been caught."
IG, CID, Anurag Gupta said a team of officers would be sent to the towns to bring back the girls.
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