Bangalore, Dec 16 (Agencies): A child begging racket has been busted in the IT hub of India. Bangalore police have rescued almost 300 children from a begging racket thriving in the city.
According to a report published in CNN-IBN, the children were drugged and forced to beg by their masters
What’s more shocking is that over a third of these children are infants, all under the age of three.
The babies were given such high doses of drugs that some were asleep even two days after the rescue.
The children were so well trained by their masters that they used to run away immediately after noticing a camera.
Most of the kids rescued have been sent to government homes.
Some child beggars do not want to return to their homes ever as they were forced into this trade by their own parents.
The Bangalore police have video evidence of around 1100 children being forced to beg by suspected traffickers.
However, the masterminds behind this racket are still at large.
An officer of Anti-Trafficking Unit revealed that most of these children are from neighbouring state Andra Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh.
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