In a joint operation by Delhi Police and National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) on Tuesday night around 23 children, including 17 girls, were rescued from national Capital's Shakur Basti area.
"We have arrested four person identified as Murari, Sarfaraj both resident of Bihar, Qutubmuddin and Ibrahim residents of Jharkhand.
The rescue operation took place at J block in Shakur Basti area in on Tuesday night from there seventeen girls and six boys — mostly from Bihar and Jharkhand, with some of them even from Bangladesh — were rescued," said a senior police official.
"During our initial investigation it was revealed that they were running an unregistered maid placement agency 'Sonakshi Enterprises' and were supplying maid on demand.
The accused during interrogation said that they had recently started this work," said the senior police official.
"We have registered a case under section 370, 342 and JJ act of Indian Penal Code (IPC). The accused were produced in court today and were remanded for two days police custody," said the senior police official.
According to NCPCR official, the mental evaluation of the children will be done, following which they will be presented in front of the child welfare committee and then would be sent to shelter homes.