Bus standing in the police line and officers investigating on the spot.
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Five clerics, who were taking 99 children from different districts of Bihar to Saharanpur by bus, were caught by the anti-human trafficking unit of the State Child Rights Protection Commission on Friday. The children are between nine and 12 years old. All have been kept in Mumtaz Asylum in Lucknow. The police is busy interrogating the clerics and getting information about the entire racket.
Commission member Dr. Shuchita Chaturvedi told that on the information of Virendra Singh, Director of Mission Mukti Foundation New Delhi, the children being brought from Araria and Purnia of Bihar were rescued safely.
Child Welfare Committee member Dr. Suchita Chaturvedi had received information that many children were being taken illegally from Araria and Purnia in Bihar to Deoband in Saharanpur. He informed the Anti Human Trafficking Unit. After this, the unit and the team of Ayodhya Police stopped a bus on the highway located at Badi Devkali of the city. 95 children were found in the bus. There were five Maulvis with him. The joint team took all the children and the Maulvi to Civil Lines for questioning, where the interrogation took place for hours.
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According to sources, the children did not know where they were being taken. The information given by the Maulvi also turned out to be false. Sarvesh Awasthi of Child Welfare Committee said that the Maulvis do not even have the names of the children’s parents and the consent letter. Many children are also orphans. Maulvi kept misleading the police.
