Hyderabad to check child beggary

State HRC directs city traffic to prevent use of infants or children for begging

PTI | May 19, 2010



The Andhra Pradesh State Human Rights Commission (APSHRC) has directed the City Traffic Department to instruct the police personnel manning traffic signals and junctions here to prevent the use of infants and children by women for begging.

APSHRC Chairperson B Subhashan Reddy gave the direction on a petition filed by an NRI, Manukranth Chennareddy, a software engineer working in the US. He had complained children and infants were being "exploited" by women by using them for begging.

The rights panel asked Additional Commissioner of Police (Traffic) C V Anand to prevent such unlawful and "heinous and inhuman" act, and if necessary, the police should prosecute those using infants and children for begging.

"Also, take remedial action to rehabilitate such infants and children and file compliance report before June 2," Reddy ordered.

Chennareddy, who is on a tour to India, with his complaint had also attached some photographs of children being exploited by women.

"Begging itself is an unlawful act and involving infants and children in it is a gross act of human rights violation," Chennareddy said.

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