SC Asks NCPCR to Inquire Into Trafficking of Manipur Children

New Delhi, Apr 1 : The Supreme Court today ordered an inquiry by National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) into the trafficking of children from Manipur and Assam to Tamil Nadu.

A Bench, headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan, asked the Commission to place its report within four weeks and posted the matter for hearing in May.
The court asked the Tamil Nadu government to furnish names of the children who were rescued from Kanyakumari district and and their parents.
It was hearing an application based on a media report about recovery of 76 such children.