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Hyderabad: 25 children rescued, 10 traffickers detained by RPF

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Hyderabad: Cracking down against human traffickers at railway stations, Secundrabad’s Railway Protection Force (RPF) rescued 25 children who were being trafficked from West Bengal and Odisha and detained 10 traffickers.
The children who were in the age group of 12 to 17 years were meant to be employed in small-scale industries in the city.
As part of Operation Action Against Human Trafficking (AAHT), RPF-Secunderabad personnel in collaboration with an NGO, Bachpan Bachao Andolan rescued the children who were traveling by the East Coast Express.

“The RPF escorted the train and conducted searches between Vijayawada and Warangal stations and rescued the children,” said Debashmita C. Banerjee, senior divisional security commissioner, Secunderabad.
Rescued children, who belonged to different states, have been provided shelter in a children’s home in Hanamkonda while the BBA team will follow up with the CWC and DCPU Warangal for further rehabilitation of the rescued children.
This operation is part of the drive by the BBA and the RPF to make the nation child trafficking free.
In May 2022, the BBA and the RPF signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with a common goal.
Both RPF and BBA pledged to work together to share information, build the capacity of RPF personnel and railway employees to work against human trafficking, increase sensitization and create awareness and also help each other in the identification and detection of such cases.

Considering how often the traffickers use the well-networked Indian Railways as the cheapest, fastest, and most reliable carrier to traffic thousands of vulnerable women and children every year, this drive has been fetching great results.
Talking about the dark world of child trafficking and child labor that continues to mar society and the various issues that crop up while dealing with child traffickers, the director of Bachpan Bachao Andolan, Manish Sharma said, “In spite of having very strong laws to protect children from all kinds of exploitation and child labor, people continue to employ underage children in commercial activities and exploit them.”
“These are serious crimes and the Union government must enact the Anti-Trafficking Bill at the earliest to curb the problem,” he added.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

May 10, 2023
UP: RPF cop saves newborn and mother in train

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Lucknow: A 26-year-old RPF constable, used her experience at a private clinic to save the newborn and the mother, who were lying helpless for nearly half an hour in the lavatory of a train.
The RPF constable, Kumari Sona, belongs to Mathura district and had earlier worked at a private clinic.
The incident took place on Tuesday evening in a train headed towards Rourkela, Odisha.
The woman passenger had delivered the baby in the lavatory. The infant was not breathing but after Sona’s intervention, the infant started breathing.
Later, a railway medical team at Rourkela junction took the woman and her child to the nearest hospital.
For her efforts, Sona of Chakradharpur railway division (Jharkhand) of South-Eastern Railway (SER) has been lauded by her colleagues and seniors.
The woman identified as Laxmi Godra, 24, and her newborn baby are said to be stable.
According to official sources, Laxmi along with her husband Bahadur Godra and brother-in-law Raju was travelling from Hazur Sahib in Nanded (Maharashtra) to Tatanagar (Jharkhand) in Hazur Sahib Nanded-Santragachi SuperFast Express (12767).

Railway sources said, “Laxmi had gone to the loo when she developed labour pain and delivered the baby inside the coach lavatory. Since no passenger, including women, came to her rescue, she along with her newborn remained inside the lavatory. But as soon as the train reached Rourkela junction, her husband jumped at the railway platform and shouted for help.”
“I was heading to Tatanagar for a scheduled firing exercise along with my group, when one of my colleagues informed me that a woman had delivered a baby inside the train lavatory and there was no one to help her. I had gained some informal experience in child delivery at a private clinic where I worked as a nonmedical staff before I joined the RPF. I followed my instincts and ran to help her,” Sona told reporters.
“Without wasting time, I first detached and clipped the umbilical cord. The newborn was showing no movement and his body was turning pale. I turned him around and started rubbing his back. It took me a couple of minutes when the baby started crying after which I wrapped him in a blanket. By then the medical team arrived and took over,” she said.
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March 22, 2023
Maha: CBI arrests RPF official, aide for accepting Rs 1 lakh bribe in Akola

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Nagpur: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested an inspector of the Railway Protection Force (RPF) for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 1 lakh from a man for releasing his father who had been arrested in two cases in Maharashtra’s Akola district, an official said on Saturday.
The CBI’s Nagpur-based anti-corruption branch on Friday caught the RFP inspector and his aide through whom he had demanded and accepted the bribe, the official said.
As per the complaint, the accused official allegedly demanded Rs 5 lakh from the son of a furniture store owner, who was arrested in two cases for buying and storing stolen goods in his shop, he said.
After negotiations, the accused official agreed to settle for Rs 3 lakh, which was to be paid to him in three instalments, the official said.
A team of CBI officers laid a trap and caught the inspector red-handed and booked his aide as a co-accused in the case registered under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code and Prevention of Corruption Act, he added.
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March 11, 2023
Hyderabad: Secunderabad RPF recovers Rs 39L worth stolen items

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Hyderabad: The Railway Protection Force (RPF), Secunderabad, arrested 60 offenders and recovered stolen property worth Rs 39.8 lakhs with registration of 50 cases against them. The recovery was done in January, when the RPF conducted different operations as part its task.
Under its luggage retrieval operation ‘Amanat’, RPF personnel retrieved more than 208 belongings of passengers valued at more than Rs 49.3 lakhs, said a press release. As part of operation ‘NARCOS, RPF confiscated ganja valued at more than Rs 32.5 lakhs with the arrest of 7 persons.
The RPF also rescued children under the operation ‘Nanhe Faristey’. “RPF undertook the noble cause of identifying and rescuing children in need of care and protection who are lost/separated from their family due to various reasons. Altogether 82 children have been provided safety,” officials said.
Action against human trafficking under the operation AAHT, the RPF and South Central Railway rescued 18 boys from the clutches of 6 traffickers.
Under Mission ‘Jeevan Raksha’, RPF personnel, risking their own lives, saved four persons. It also initiated action against carriage of contraband/illegal goods under Operation ‘Satark’. Liquor worth Rs 16,500 that was being transported illegally through trains was seized with arrest of one person.
In action against touts, RPF registered cases and arrested 13 persons, seizing 106 tickets valued at Rs. 17.08 lakhs, stated the SCR release.
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February 17, 2023
Hyderabad: RPF rescues 27 child trafficking victims, 6 held

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Hyderabad: The Railway Protection Force rescued 27 child trafficking victims and detained six alleged traffickers from Danapur Express on Wednesday in collaboration with NGO Bachpan Bachao Andolan under Operation Action against Human Trafficking (AAHT).
The operation was conducted in collaboration with the Bachpan Bachao and was based on intelligence generated from continuous data analysis by the RPF’s Cyber Cell.
Raids were conducted from Kazipet to Secunderabad. The operation was carried out by the Anti-Human Trafficking Unit (AHTU) of the Railway Protection Force (RPF) from Secunderabad. RPF officials involved in the bust kept a close watch on suspected coaches to identify and pinpoint the seat and coach numbers of the traffickers.
The rescued children are from Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, and Madhya Pradesh state
The RPF team recorded statements from the children and carried out further inquiries for legal action with the assistance of Sri. Venkateshwarlu, BBA State Coordinator and the District Child Protection Unit/HYB.
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February 2, 2023