800 child labourers, 503 from Bengaluru alone, rescued in two-hour crackdown across Karnataka
The crackdown comes against the backdrop of Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar’s surprise visit to the APMC Yard in Yeshwantpur, recently, where officials found 19 children working on the premises. In a Statewide crackdown on child labour on Saturday, police teams and Labour Department officials inspected 16,951 premises across Karnataka and rescued 800 children, all in…
