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Last week, a joint team of police from Odisha and West Kochi rescued 43 girls from a sea food processing company in West Kochi. The initiative, as part of "Operation Muskaan", a drive to trace missing children, followed reports that minor girls from Odisha were being trafficked to Kerala. An age determination test of the rescued labourers later confirmed that 26 of them were aged below 18. It is a pointer to a larger malaise that has plagued a major part of the seafood processing sector in Kerala, authorities say.
