CHENNAI: The Madras High Court has advised the Tamil Nadu government to formulate proper procedures to prevent the use of children for begging on the streets.

The advice came after a petitioner, RS Tamilvendan, a Chennai-based advocate, filed a public interest litigation in the High Court seeking a direction to the authorities to conduct an inquiry to verify whether the women found begging with children on the streets of Chennai are indeed the mothers of those children.

In his petition, the petitioner said the women begging with children at traffic signals show no physical resemblance to the children. It also noted that the children used for begging appear to be sleeping all the time, raising suspicion about their well-being. Despite the heat and the loud noise from passing vehicles, th

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