Calangute, Oct 8 (TOI): To protect rescued children, the Calangute police has written to the Child Welfare Committee (CWC) to conduct a DNA examination before handing them over to their parents.
Calangute PI Jivba Dalvi said during patrolling, children are often found wandering around Calangute unaccompanied by an adult. “These children are vulnerable and may be exploited by criminals or anti-social elements,” he said.
Dalvi suspects that some individuals make false claims of being the biological parents of the rescued children and they may be involved in trafficking.
He added that the exercise would enable authorities to maintain a database of people coming to claim the children. Individuals who repeatedly claim children, he said, will be put under the police’s lens.