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The Kerala High Court has ordered the CBI to investigate the trafficking of large groups of children to Kerala. The court said children cannot be brought from other states without the prior permission of the Orphanage Control Board and the recommendation from the respective state governments. The CBI probe will cover the trafficking of 623 children to Palakkad and Ernakulam this year and in 2014. The court said child-trafficking was recurring in the state by flouting law and rules. Since orphanages were getting children from agents, it was clear that they were conniving, a division bench comprising Chief Justice Ashok Bhushan and Justice A.M. Shaffique added. The bench gave the ruling on complaints filed by the Palakkad-based Anti-Corruption Human Rights Committee and ‘Thambu’ organisation. The Director General of Police has been asked to hand over to the CBI the probe into two cases related to the trafficking of 578 children through Palakkad railway station in May 2014. Other cases including the trafficking of 29 children in May 2015 and 16 children from Arunachal Pradesh in June 2015 will also come under the purview of the CBI probe. A lot of children have been brought to Kerala from states such as Jharkhand, Bihar and West Bengal, the court pointed out. The court directed the state government to give full support to the CBI. The court ordered the government to take action on the trafficking of 578 children from Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal on May 24 and 25 last year, under the Juvenile Justice Act of 2000 through the Child Welfare Committees. The Child Welfare Committee has also been asked to take action in the case of the trafficking of 29 children who were brought to Ernakulam South Railway Station. The court had interfered to send back the 16 children brought from Arunachal Pradesh in June. CBI standing counsel Chandrasekhara Pillai said the agency was ready to take up the probe. The agency has a special wing to investigate into human trafficking since 2012. Trafficking a minor attracts imprisonment from 10 years to life term, the court said. In the case of trafficking more than one child, the minimum punishment term is 14 years.
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Kerala, India, forced migration, trafficking, CBI, probe, orphanages, forced migration
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