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Child labour case against IT professional

Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD: Alert passengers aboard the Godavari Express helped rescue a child labourer from her overbearing employers. Passengers who noticed a couple ill-treating a small girl reportedly employed to take care of their infant, called up authorities in Hyderabad. Officials waited in Secunderabad station for the train to arrive and later registered a case against a software professional and his wife under provisions of the Anti-Child Labour Act on Saturday.

Authorities said the software professional and his wife argued with them saying that the girl, identified as Deepa from Ghaziabad, was their relative and that they did not employ her. “However, passengers saw them hitting her for not taking care of the child. Even when they got off the train the little girl was made to carry luggage,” Deputy Commissioner, Labour, B. Ajay said.

The couple hails from Ghaziabad of Uttar Pradesh. The girl was not taken into custody and the couple was asked to summon her parents.

Meanwhile, a report was being sent to Anti-Child Labour Department in Uttar Pradesh so that the girl could be rehabilitated. While waiting for the train to arrive, the authorities have rounded up three more children living on the station premises. They were being sent to the transit home in Kavadiguda.

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