Child labourer rescued

| Jan 26, 2019, 04:06 IST
Mangaluru: A 13-year-old boy was rescued from a canteen at Maryhill, where he worked as a child labourer, on Thursday.

A member of ChildLine said they received a tip-off from an unidentified person who called the Childline-1098 helpline informing about the same. The ChildLine team then went to Surya Canteen at Maryhill and found the 13-year-old boy hailing from Bagalakot working there. He was rescued, produced before the District Child Welfare Committee, and later sent to a rehabilitation centre.


Public are asked to inform about such child labourers by calling the ChildLine helpline.


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