The Brahmapur Childline team on Sunday rescued eight girls, including three minors, while they were being trafficked to Hyderabad by a bus to work as migrant labourers. All the girls are natives of Raikia in Khandhamal district.
Brahmapur Childline director Sudhir Sabat said, “Our team swung into action after the Raikia police officer informed me that eight girls were being sent by bus from Raikia. We checked all the bus coming from Raikia and found eight girls that were being trafficked to Hyderabad.” Sabat said during the rescue of the girls, the trafficker managed to escape. Three minors would be handed over to the Raikia police, he added.
Sabat also said the trafficking is being done in the knowledge of victim’s parents and for which he demanded that stringent action should be taken by the administration against the parents and at district-level. Besides, vocational training should be provided to the victims, he said.
Notably, on June 1, the Childline Help Desk rescued six girls and three boys from the Brahmapur railway station while they were taken to Hyderabad. later, the rescued children were shifted to a children’s home. The parents of the rescued had been informed.