Police: Traffickers in India Force 300,000 Children to Beg in Streets

At least 300,000 children across India are drugged, beaten and forced to beg every day, in what has become a multi million rupee industry controlled by human trafficking cartels, police and trafficking experts said. Writing in a report which is about to be circulated across the country's police forces, the authors urged law enforcers to carry out greater surveillance of children living on the streets. According to the Indian National Human Rights Commission, up to 40,000 children...

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