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By Our Staff Reporter
NEW DELHI, APRIL 7. As many as 43 children, who were allegedly being made to do work in an embroidery unit at Sarita Vihar in South Delhi, were rescued by the Special Cell of the Delhi police this Wednesday. The unit owner, who had been posing as an office-bearer of a human rights association, has been arrested. According to the police, Inspector Devendra Singh received a tip-off that children from different parts of Bihar were being brought to the Capital and were being forced to work under "inhuman" conditions. Subsequently, some police personnel posing as garment exporters visited the Shaheen Bagh unit at Sarita Vihar and found that the children were being made to work for long hours in small rooms without any ventilation. A police team under the supervision of the Assistant Commissioner of Police, N. Tshering, then raided the place and arrested the unit owner, Abid Hussain, following which 43 children were rescued from there. During interrogation, Abid disclosed that he was from Muzaffarpur in Bihar. He said he had worked for several years in Dubai after which he returned and set up the embroidery unit. For cheap labour, he started bringing children from Muzaffarpur and Sitamarhi districts of Bihar, telling their parents that he would impart them training in embroidery. The children rescued by the police were from 8 to 16 years age, while almost half of them were belong 12. They disclosed that their parents were poor agricultural labourers back in Bihar and a majority of them had not attended school. Some of these children, who were made to work for over 15 hours a day, six days a week, were working in the embroidery unit for the past three years. The unit owner, Abid, would give them a monthly salary of just Rs. 200 to 500. Interestingly, Abid, who had bought two buildings at Sarita Vihar, had been posing as the deputy chief of the Delhi State Bharatiya Human Rights Association.
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