As many as 32 children trafficked out of Jharkhand have been brought back to the State on Sunday night by special teams constituted by Crime Investigation Department to recue children languishing in other States away from their family members. The rescue effort was the part of ‘Operation Muskan’ launched by the department to act on inputs about missing children of the State.
Around seven teams comprising police officials of various districts were flagged off to eight States on April 30 to bring back lost children of the State. The result after 10-days of intensive search has been encouraging for the department and now the focus has shifted to settle and rehabilitate
“Results have been very encouraging and children have been brought back. Further, how they (children) will be settled and their rehabilitation is being looked into by the department. Girls will be sent to Kasturba Gandhi School,” said ADG, CID, Renzi Dungdung.
The 32 rescued children —16 boys and 16 girls — who were languishing shelter homes and observation homes in Delhi, Chandigardh, Mumbai, Hyder-abad, Ajmersharif, lucknow and Ahmedabad. Notably, the team identified around 57 children of Jharkhand hailing from Giridih (5), Sahibganj (13), Palamau (7), Ranchi (2), Pakur (1), Khunti (5), Gumla (6), Chaibasa (1), Ramgarh (2) among others.