Around 200 Madarsa students detained
2017-07-11
196 students along with their faculty were traveling in the train when they were stopped. These people were taken into detention by the railway Police and held there for over 5 hours. The authorities asked for identity verification, such as IDs etc because they suspected that these kids, from ages of 9-19 were being trafficked across the country. The police got to this point due to a whatsapp message being circulated saying that these children were being trafficked for religious conversion. Such manufactored rumours led the police to investigate the muslim madrasa students more.