JAMSHEDPUR: Thirty-four children, mostly tribals, were allegedly trafficked from Bihar and Jharkhand to Ludhiana in Punjab and some were converted to Christianity, a police official said on Wednesday. They were lodged in a missionary-run child shelter home in Ludhiana, Superintendent of Police (SP), West Singhbhum, G Kranthi Kumar, said.Kumar said the police swung into action after Jyotsana Tirkey, a member of the Child Welfare Committee (CWC) in Chaibasa, lodged a complaint on August 26.Her complaint was based on a media report that claimed that 34 children from Chaibasa in Jharkhand's West Singhbhum district and Bihar were illegally kept in a missionary-run child shelter home in Ludhiana, he said.Following the complaint, a police team was sent to Ludhiana and it along with the Punjab Police arrested a man He was produced at a court there before he is brought to Chaibasa on transit remand, the officer said."Police has contacted 12 children of the 20 reportedly sent back to West Singhbhum before the police team reached there (Ludhiana) following disclosure of the alleged human trafficking incident," Kumar said.Police are trying to trace the remaining children.The 34 children from Bihar and Jharkhand were also admitted to an illegal school in Ludhiana, and later shifted to another city-based school which was registered under the JJ Act and legal, the SP said. pti

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