19 child labourers saved in Delhi

Nineteen minors, working in hazardous sticker factories, were on Tuesday rescued from Kanjhaola area of north-west Delhi, an NGO working for children said.

Nineteen minors, working in hazardous sticker factories, were on Tuesday rescued from Kanjhaola area of north-west Delhi, an NGO working for children said.

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The child labourers rescued were from Bihar and UP and most of them were trafficked from their native villages by middlemen, Bachpan Bachao Andolan chairman RS Chaurasia said.

Acting on a complaint filed by the NGO, SDM Saraswati Vihar, Ajay Kumar, and labour department district task force and police, raided several places in Anandpur Gaon, Kurala and Madanpur Dabas.