The report "India's Child Soldiers" says that recruitment of child soldiers by armed groups including the Naxalites is rampant. At least 3,000 children, 500 in the North East and Jammu and Kashmir and about 2,500 in the Naxal affected States currently remain involved in armed conflicts. This estimate of child soldiers is conservative considering that the Maoists follow the policy of forcibly recruiting at least one cadre from each Adivasi family," the report said.
ACHR director Suhas Chakma accused the government of defending the records of the armed opposition groups. India in its first report on the implementation of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict to the UN Committee in 2011 stated that there is no recruitment of child soldiers including by the armed groups in India. The first periodic report of India will come for preliminary examination by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child during its 66th pre-sessional working group to be held in Geneva from 7-11 October 2013 while NGOs are required to submit their report by July.
The report includes 11 cases of forcible recruitment of child soldiers by armed groups along with other evidences like photographs of child soldiers surrendering with their arms before then Home Minister P Chidambaram and Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi in 2011 and 2012.
"Regrettably, the state governments of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh have been recruiting children below 18 years as "boy-orderlies" under Section 60 of the Madhya Pradesh Police Regulation and deploying them for combat purposes.
While hundreds of children below 18 years have been recruited as "boy orderlies" in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh over the years, the State government of Chhattisgarh on a complaint filed by Asian Centre for Human Rights before the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights admitted in June 2011 that there are approximately 300 "boy-orderlies" employed in the state police force at present and seven of them were posted with 4th Battalion of Chhattisgarh Police at Mana in Raipur. These children are not only denied the right to education but deployed with the forces who are engaged in counter insurgency," ACHR said.
Article 4 of the Optional Protocol to the UN CRC states that armed opposition groups should not under any circumstance, recruit or use in hostilities persons under the age of 18 years and the government shall take all feasible measures to prevent such recruitment and use, including the adoption of legal measures necessary to prohibit and criminalize such practices.
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