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The Maharashtra State Commission for Protection of Child Rights has ordered a CID inquiry into a child labour case that was reported by Pratham NGO. Pratham in February requested the commission to order Navi Mumbai railway police to file a complaint against a person who brought three minor children from UP to sell fruits. However, instead of going through proper procedure via the child welfare committee to send the children back home, Vashi railway police told the commission that they had sent the rescued children directly to their families in UP. The NGO found the children aged between 12 and 13 on January 23 in the jurisdiction of Vashi railway police. The volunteers of Pratham took them to the railway police station where they revealed their name and age. The children narrated that they were brought by a person named Anil to sell fruits. The children also revealed that their parents were farmers. The NGO wrote a letter to Vashi railway police but no action was taken on the issue. Commission secretary AN Tripathi said, "The Vashi railway police told us in a hearing that they have already sent the children back home with one of their uncles and all three of them are with their parents. But this is a wrong procedure. Whenever such minor children are rescued from child labour, the police should contact the child welfare committee for further procedure to send them back home. Or, the police should have contacted the child welfare committee of UP and make it send the parents to Mumbai to take the children back. The Vashi railway police is absolutely wrong. Hence, I have ordered a CID inquiry into this matter."
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Maharashtra State Commission, Child Rights, CID, child labour, Navi Mumbai, Pratham, minor children, UP, child welfare committee, Vashi, NGO, children
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