Bengaluru rescues children from illegal labor
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Police in Bengaluru, India rescued twenty-nine children during an operation targeting child labor on Tuesday.
Chief Minister D K Shivakumar ordered the inspection after learning from people at the Yeshwanthpur APMC market that children were working in shops. Five teams from the police and labour department then inspected businesses and found nineteen children employed there, along with ten more working along the roadside. The rescued children came from several Indian states.
Thirteen of the children were from Bihar, with two each from West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh, and one each from Rajasthan and Karnataka. Police registered four First Information Reports against shop owners under the Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act and the Juvenile Justice Act. Investigators plan to determine how long the children had been working, how they arrived at the market, and who was responsible for employing them.
The labour department also filed five additional cases against shop owners under the Child and Adolescent Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act of 1986. The Bengaluru Child Welfare Committee will now handle the cases of the ten children rescued from the roadside.
