Railway police rescue five minors in Assam

A girl and four minor boys were found by police separately at the Guwahati railway station in Assam. The children said they had left their home without informing their families.

Guwahati: Five minors have been rescued by Railway Protection Force from Guwahati Railway station, an official said.

Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) spokesman Subhanan Chanda in a press release here on Saturday said a woman RPF constable during her duty at Guwahati Railway station on Friday morning noticed a lone minor girl entering into the station through the main entrance gate in a distressed condition.

Upon asking, she disclosed her name and also informed that she fled away from her home at Pasighat in East Siang district of Arunachal Pradesh for onward journey to Delhi in search of employment without any intimation to her parents or relatives.

When the rescued minor girl was brought to RPF post for further necessary action, Aadhaar card, school identity card, some used clothes, one smartphone, two bank passbooks and Rs 1,430 in cash were found on checking her bag.

RPF Guwahati immediately informed her brother about the rescue through telephone and later after all formalities the rescued minor girl was handed over to Railway ChildLine Guwahati for her safe custody.

In another incident on the same day, an RPF team while investigating human trafficking at Guwahati Railway station noticed four minor boys roaming on Platform no-7 of Guwahati Railway Station in distressed condition.

On asking, the boys stated that they have run away from their home to Guwahati by train without any intimation to their parents to search for work.

On further interrogation, they disclosed their names and address, it was detected that three of the minors are from Begusarai and another from the Samastipur district of Bihar.

As the rescued minor boys could not give any contact number of their parents or relatives, they were brought to RPF post and after observing all formalities were handed over to Railway Childline Guwahati.

Meanwhile, acting on a tip-off RPF Agartala along with Government Railway Police detained a woman and seized 16 packets of brown sugar with a market value of Rs 6 lakh from her possession at Agartala Railway station on Thursday evening, the release added.

PTI