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Kolkata boy freed from captivity

By Our Staff Reporter

THRISSUR, JUNE 5. A 14-year-old boy from West Bengal who was allegedly held captive at an ornaments manufacturing unit here was released on Friday on the intervention of the police and `Child Line' activists.

The police said Mohammad Shajahan Ali Badshawas had been brought to the unit in December last by a person from Kolkata. He was, however, detained by the unit owners, Althaz Hussein and Zakeer Hussein, alleging that the person who had brought him had stolen 85 gm of gold from the unit. The boy was also forced to work at the unit.

The man who had got the boy to the unit later filed a complaint against the shop-owners before `Child Line,' a voluntary organisation working to protect children's rights, at their office in Kolkata. The Child Line office-bearers in Kolkota informed their counterparts in Thrissur, who, with the help of the police, managed to free the boy from captivity.

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