New Delhi: The Supreme Court Thursday pulled up the central government for acting mechanically in forwarding to it the information furnished by the state governments on the steps taken by them for eradicating child trafficking without examining it.

"It can't be a mechanical thing. You are not a post office," said a bench of Justice Anil R. Dave, Justice Madan B. Lokur and Justice Kurian Joseph. The court told Additional Solicitor General Neeraj Kishan Kaul that there could be two approaches.