On September 18, the Sessions Court heard the case in what was said to be the sixth hearing since trial began way back in September 2013.
The court was slated to examine three witnesses today, but only one turned up for the hearing. The court has so far examined 6 witnesses with 5 more remaining.
The pastor was arrested in March 2013 by the Rajasthan Police after it was detected that he was running illegal shelter homes in Jaipur for children trafficked from the North East.
The case was subsequently handed over to the Nagaland police after a case was registered against him at Jalukie police station.
Eight of the 53 children rescued from the illegal shelters are from Nagaland.
A case of sexual abuse was also filed against the pastor after it emerged that some of the children confined in the shelters were sexually abused. He had made an unsuccessful bail plea during the initial stage of the police investigation—he is currently in judicial custody.
Source: Morung Express
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