Jharkhand News: RPF rescues four children in Garhwa

THE JHARKHAND STORY NETWORK

Daltonganj, Sept 27: RPF’s (Railway Protection Force) operation Nanhey Farishtey saved the lives of four children from imminent trapping of them by the lurking human traffickers.

Two alert RPF personnel under the supervision and monitoring of the inspector-in-charge of RPF Garhwa Road Junction post Banarasi Yadav rescued these four children from platform number 1 of the Garhwa Road junction railway station today around 5 am.

Yadav said, “Our two RPF personnel, V P Singh and A K Chowdhury, were on patrol. They detected these four children on platform number 1.”

These four children had earlier come to the Garhwa Road junction by the Dehri-On- Sone Barwadeeh passenger train late Thursday night itself.

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They wanted to go to Bishrampur in Palamu. They tried to board a couple of trains going in different directions.

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Children’s background

None of the four had any address as to where they were going.

RPF inspector-in-charge said, “CCTV footage monitoring had shown these four last night itself. RPF was fully alert. It rescued them Friday morning around 5 am.”

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They told the RPF that they left their homes in Bihar’s Rohtas district as their mothers used to beat them up.

Yadav said the four were not of one family but of four different families.

Again, they were in the age group of 4 to 8 years. The rescued were given biscuits and water by the RPF.

RPF inspector-in-charge Yadav said, “The four told us they are not of any school.”

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Children handed over to CWC

All four rescued children were today handed over to the chief of the Child Welfare Committee (CWC) in Daltonganj.

RPF Garhwa Road Junction post has won respect and praise from the common people for saving lives of children, girls and women.