Abuse of Indian Street Children

Abuse of Indian Street Children
Release From Utsav Bains

India has the highest number of street children in the world more than 20 million. Street children are children who live or work on the street. The Indian Police suffers from a chronic disease of extorting hafta or protection money from these poor children.

The police in routine illegally confines these children in Police Lock-ups on the pretext of investigation into petty crimes and uses torture inside the police lock-ups to extort money from the children under the threat of fabrication of false cases against these poor children.

The street children are tortured by third degree methods for example - giving electric shocks on ears etc. Female street children are often sexually abused and even raped by the Policemen. Children who pay the extortion money are let off and those who are unable to pay are framed in false criminal cases and sent to jails.

The misery of the children does not end there . In jails they are made to live in the worst conditions. They are kept in solitary confinement for days. They are tortured even inside the jails.

Lost-Childhood is 10-minute short documentary film on the issue of ‘Police Abuse and Killings of Street Children in India’.

The film looks into the failure of the Indian domestic laws, the Indian Government and also the Indian Judiciary to protect millions of innocent street children in the country from abuse and torture inflicted by the Indian Police.

The short documentary film also exposes how the American News Channel CNN working in India as CNN-IBN cheats a poor street child in India.'

Please watch the 10 minute film on the link:

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Utsav Bains

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