A 12-year-old boy who worked as bonded labour in Jhansi for the past one month was rescued by District Reserve Police (DRP) Bhopal on Tuesday; boy was found in lTT–Kushinagar train in the afternoon.
The victim told the police that he was forced to do labour for the past three months and on Tuesday he managed to escape.
In charge inspector of District Reserve Police (DRP) Bhopal Virendra Singh said that the police personnel of Bhopal reserve lines ASI Avendra Singh, HCM GP Chaturvedi and Surendra Uike during their duty in train number 12541 lTT-Kushinagar Express found a boy travaelling alone and when he was questioned he told that he was held captive and worked as bonded labour for the person.
The boy was identified as Tara Singh of Datia and later in the investigation the boy provided mobile number of his father and when he was contacted he confirmed that his son left the house after he was scolded. The boy was found in the coach number S-5.
Police said that the victim was scolded by his parents thereafter he left the house and later he met the accused Manjeet Sardar who lured him and took him to
Jhansi and kept the victim captive and forced the victim for domestic work. On Tuesday the victim managed to escape and was found by police.
After the preliminary investigation the boy was handed over to Child line which would take care of the boy. Based on the details provided by the victim police would search for the accused.