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Police Arrest Orphanage Owner Who Made Children Beg in Hyderabad

The children were being asked to beg everyday in different parts of the city.

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  • On Thursday, Indian police arrested the owner of an orphanage for forcing children in his care to beg on the streets. 14 children were rescued following the arrest of Mallipeddi James as he dropped off children to beg at a traffic junction in Hyderabad.

  • The children aged 7-14 had been left in his care at the Brahmaputra Orphanage in Ameenpur village in Telangana. They were being asked to beg everyday in different parts of the city. He was supposed to care for them and educate them.

  • Experts estimate that at least 3,00,000 children across India are drugged, beaten and forced to beg every day, in what has become a multi-million rupee industry run by human trafficking cartels.

  • Rights groups have long complained that children’s homes in India are poorly regulated, not inspected often enough, and that many privately-run institutions are able to operate without a licence leaving thousands of children vulnerable to abuse.

(With inputs from Reuters.)

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Topics:  Telangana   Hyderabad   Human Trafficking 

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