India, Aug. 28 -- NEW DELHI

The Delhi Police, in a joint operation with the Jammu and Kashmir Police, busted a human trafficking racket that allegedly pushed several children into bonded domestic labour in Srinagar over the past two years, officers aware of the development said on Wednesday.

Police said the investigation into a case of two children, a 15-year-old girl and a 13-year-old girl, who were neighbours and went missing from Bhalswa Dairy in 2024, led them to Srinagar, from where the girls were rescued in June. "One of the girls managed to contact a person she knew who further informed police," an officer aware of the matter said.

Their statements to the Child Welfare Committee revealed they had been lured from the Old Delhi Ra...