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'Abducted' boy found abandoned

By Devesh K. Pandey

NEW DELHI, NOV. 6. An eight-year-old Nepalese boy who was recently "abducted" by his uncle from Haryana and reportedly taken to Uttar Pradesh via Delhi was found abandoned at Chitwan on the Indo-Nepal border a week ago. While efforts are under way to restore him to his parents, it is feared that several such children are being trafficked in the same manner to and from Nepal to use them as carriers of smuggled drugs.

Pradip Poudel, a resident of Rewari in Haryana, was found weeping near a border security checkpoint at Chitwan by the local police.

With the intervention of a Nepal-based non-government organisation named Centre for Legal Research and Resource Development, the police came to know that the boy was abandoned by his drunkard uncle after he spotted policemen at the checkpoint.

The victim could just reveal that his family originally belonged to Lamjung in Nepal and that he studied in Saraswati Vidya Mandir at Malepura in Rewari.Through UNIFEM officials and Shakti Vahini, an NGO working in the field of human trafficking, Pradip's parents were finally traced and informed about the condition of their son.

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