FIRs will be lodged against handlers of Child Beggars; rescued children will be housed in shelter home; similar drive will also be launched in other parts of Sindh
Karachi
Sindh Child Protection Authority (SCPA) n association with Sindh Police has launched the operation during the month of Ramzan to rescue the children from forced begging in Karachi.
It has been decided to make concrete efforts to rehabilitate the minors during the process so that they may not be pushed again in the menace of child beggary.
Sindh Child Protection Authority and Police Department have formed seven special teams in all seven districts of Karachi Division with Child Protection Officers leading the campaign to initiate crackdown against professional and criminal record holding beggars as part of efforts to rid the provincial capital from the issue of child beggary.
The personnel of district police, traffic police and other agencies will also assist these special teams to curb professional beggary and organized criminal gangs feigned as beggars.
Director General, SCPA said the children involved in begging will be taken into custody by Sindh Child Protection Authority to house them in Shelter Home for destitute Children, Malir for rehabilitation.
Director General further said that FIRs will be registered against the handlers of child beggary.
Sindh Child Protection Authority urged the general public to cooperate and avoid giving out money to the child beggars as their act will not help groom positively these destitute children in their future ahead.
It has been informed that earlier Sindh Child Protection Authority during last few months rescued 155 children from the prominent begging points in the districts of South, East, Malir, Central and West which resulted in the arrest of 547 handlers with lodging 211 FIRs through Police and Child Protection Officers against them. SCPA has further planned to launch the similar Anti Beggary Drive across the Province. (PR)
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