A child (R) breaks apart broken tiles alongside her mother outside an under-construction apartment building in Mumbai. AFP/File photo for representation only. Thiruvananthapuram: As many as 145 children, including 95 girls brought from Odisha without valid documents were detained and rescued by Kerala railway police at Parassala railway station here Thursday.
An Odisha-based agent who transported the children via Chennai to work in a private firm here has been taken into custody, police said.
The agent told the police that they were brought here to work in a private firm in the city after giving them training.
On a tip off that a group of children were traveling in a train from Chennai to Thiruvanathrapurm, police conducted search and rescued them.
They would be produced in the Railway Court and further steps would be taken as per Court's order, police said.
The children had left Odisha three-four days ago, police said.
(With agency inputs)
