GRP finds it tough to track homes of rescued children

Indore: Twelve-year-old Raju agreed to accompany a stranger when his uncle promised that he will get opportunities to continue his education and learn skills to earn his livelihood.
Little did he know that accompanying an elderly woman on a train journey would land him in the hands of human traffickers, who would take him to work as labourers in major cities like Indore.
Raju, name changed, is one of the 67 children from Raxaul town of Champaran district of Bihar, rescued by the railway police while being transported on Jansadharan Express train from Itarasi and Khandwa stations on Sunday night.
"My uncle convinced me that I will get a chance to study and to learn skills which will help me earn a livelihood," said Raju, sitting at a Childline centre in Khandwa and recounting his ordeal to TOI.
Raju's father left for Sikkim to earn a livelihood. Before he left, he entrusted his uncle to look after him. But things did not go as palnned for the kid.
Raju's is not an isolated tale, each of the 67 children who were rescued, had gone through some ordeal or the other.
GRP had arrested Nazma, who was accompanying the children. Raju claimed that his uncle asked him to go with her, promising a better future.
Nazma earlier claimed that Raju was her grandson -a statement GRP officials found to be false.
"We have booked this woman under IPC 370 and 120 B. She will be sent on remand for two days," said GRP police station in-charge Mohan Singh Singore.
Khandwa Childline officer, Rajesh Shukla said the children did not have contact numbers of their families. GRP personnel are trying to contact Bihar Police to trace children's families by the name and address given by them.