Seven Nepali children rescued from India

Kathmandu: Seven Nepali children, who had gone missing from various districts of the country, have been rescued from different places in India.

KIN India, an organization working against human trafficking for six years, has facilitated rescuing the trafficked children and bringing them back home to Nepal. Children between the ages of 13 to 16 years were lured and trafficked into India under various pretexts, it has been said.

Children from Palpa, Rautahat, Mahottari, and Arghakhanchi districts were rescued in a span of one to six months. According to Nabin Joshi, director of the KIN, India, of the rescued children, three were reunited with their families in the presence of undersecretary of the Ministry of Women, Children and Senior Citizen Mina Paudel, and the district police office, Rupandehi, and one have been kept in the Centre for Children at Risk. Likewise, three others have been kept in a shelter home in Rupandehi.

The KIN, India rescued over 500 Nepali children from various places in India from 2018 till date, he said, adding, ‘We work with assistance from the Indian police.’

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