Bengaluru police team probing child trafficking racket heads to US

The Bengaluru police have constituted a special team, which will fly to the US shortly, to probe the child trafficking racket following the arrest of 16 people in the city earlier this week.

The police found out that as many as 32 children were sent to the US using "transporters" in return for monetary gains. The traffickers had confessed to have reunited the 32 children with their biological parents, who were living in the US as illegal migrants. All the children were sent on fake identities by the gang members, who operated out of Bengaluru.

"We have constituted a special team to check the status of the children, who were sent to the US. We have already consulted our US counterparts and the American consulate," said Additional Commissioner of Police (Bengaluru East) P Harishekaran.

Children from Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Gujarat and Bihar were sent illegally to the US in the last two years.

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