Gaya ji/SasaRAM, Feb. 9 -- Thirteen scheduled caste girls from Uttar Pradesh and 10 minor tribal children from Jharkhand were rescued by Gaya Ji police and Railway Protection Force in two operations, police said Sunday. According to police, 10 tribal children, all 3 to 7 years old and four of them girls, belonging to Birhor Colony tribal settlement in Jainagar of Koderma district had gone to a feast with their parents. While returning, they got separated while boarding a train. The distressed children boarded a Gaya-bound train. Seven get off at Gaya and three at Paraiya railway stations, Gaya Mufassil SHO Sunil Kumar Dwivedi said. Locals spotted them wandering and informed the police. Police informed the child protection department who arrived and took the children under care. Assistant director child protection Avinash Kumar presented the children before the Child Welfare Committee (CWC). Koderma police was contacted and they confirmed a case of missing children was filed in the district.City SP Koderma reached Gaya with the children's family members on Sunday and they were handed over to them in accordance with the Juvenile Justice Act Rules, Kumar said. In another operation at Dehri-on-Sone railway station in Rohtas district, a Railway Protection Force (RPF) team led by SHO inspector Ram Vilas Ram, rescued 13 teenage girls, six of them minors from a child trafficker. After the Varanasi-Barkakana passenger train departed from the station at 11.30am, 13 girls and one woman were seen walking in a suspicious manner on the western over-bridge. Suspecting foul play, they were brought to GRP police station and questioned. The woman identified herself as Manorma Gupta (41) of Lohra Sukri village under Robertsganj police station in Sonbhadra district of UP. The girls, seven of them adults and six minors and all belonging to poor scheduled caste families from UP, informed that they had been brought by the woman to work as waitresses in wedding ceremonies, the SHO said. A case was registered and the woman arrested. The seven adult girls were released after verification but the six minor girls had been handed over to Child Helpline for shelter and further action, he added....