Eradicating the evil of child beggars – Bangalore takes a lead

The Bengaluru Police deserve kudos for undertaking a special drive against infant and child beggars and have managed to rescue 164 children in the crackdown. But, as the police admit, this is just the tip of the iceberg. It seems some of the children were hardly two years of age and some were as young as eight months.
The Bengaluru Police and child rights workers have rounded up 264 beggars in a joint operation and 164 of them were children and 25 were infants. They usually operated at traffic junctions, or beg on the streets to get the sympathy of passers-by.
This has been reported in ibnlive.com dated 8 August 2015.

As revealed by the police – the beggars are mostly from Andhra, few are from other states like Tamil Nadu. Doctors are carrying out health checks to find out if anyone was drugged or any child has been harmed physically, or abused. DNA tests are also being done.
Roping in children for begging has been going for ages in India and, it is believed to be a well-organized mechanism for goons to mint money – they exploit the children who are forced into this trade.
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