NEW DELHI: Taking a serious view of the problem of missing children and child labour in the capital, the Delhi high court on Wednesday sought a comprehensive report from the state government and Delhi Police.
A division bench of Chief Justice D Murugesan and Justice V K Jain ordered the authorities to give details of how many child labourers were rescued and action taken against employers since 2009 when it first took suo moto cognizance of the issue.
HC gave time till May 1 for a comprehensive report on a PIL filed by Save the Childhood Foundation, an NGO, seeking elimination of child labour from the capital.
"How many raids have you conducted, how many children were rescued, what action you have taken to prosecute the employers and what steps have been taken to rehabilitate the children since 2009," the bench demanded, wondering why just 74 raids were conducted during two years in which 900 children were rescued.
The petitioner's counsel Prabhashay Kaur highlighted that the labour department has failed to comply with the directions passed by HC in 2009 to rescue the child labourers and rehabilitate them as per the action plan formulated by a committee comprising officers from various departments.
Referring to a report filed by the labour department, Kaur said the court had earlier directed to rescue 500 children per month but as per the report, only 682 children were rescued last year.
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