Bangalore: The Bangalore crime Branch police officials have now saved about 300 children from the clutches of their seniors (beggars), forcing them to openly beg around Bus stands (majestic area), K.R. Market (city), Shivajinagar Bus stand/markets (cantonment), and elsewhere, aided by willing voluntary social service institutions, Women and children social welfare department officials, and common people, with an aim of divesting the city of begging menace and changing the city situation to be “beggars-free”.

The children were Kidnapped from various states, and regions of Karnataka, and forced to do begging by certain anti-social elements, and gangs.

There is a big network in this dirty occupation created by senior beggars, said city police commissioner, Jyothi Prakash Mirji on Thursday.

6 persons were taken into custody by police in this connection, and they are being questioned.

The children, freed from beggary, were place in a Bal Mandir (House for kids) for medical check-up.

A medical test made on the occasion confirmed the peculiar practice of administering drugs to these begging children, before sending them on to street begging, by gangsters who had maintained them by force, Mirji stated here.