NEPALI GIRL RESCUED IN ALAPPUZHA

NEPALI GIRL RESCUED IN ALAPPUZHA

An eleven-year-old Nepali girl was rescued by the district Child Welfare Committee (CWC)and the  Mararikkulam police from an illegal daycare centre owned by a woman named Shobhana.Mararikkulam police station circle inspector-in-charge P K Sivankutty said on Thursday that it was some local people who informed the police that a minor girl was being been forced to work in the daycare centre functioning at Mayithara near Cherthala."When we inspected the daycare centre on December 27, its owner Shobhana claimed that she did not make the girl work. She had brought the girl, who belonged to a Nepali family settled in Andhra Pradesh, with the consent of her parents. She also said she would soon admit the girl to a nearby school,'' he said.

"However, we understood that it was an illegal daycare centre. Shobhana made the girl work in her house and the centre. Following this, we rescued the girl and handed her over to the CWC authorities. We also arrested Shobhana on charges of child labour and later released her on bail. We also closed down her daycare centre," the CI said."Now the girl is in our protection and she is staying at Alappuzha Mahila Mandiram. We contacted the girl's father Sher Singh, who arrived here on Thursday. A meeting of the committee will be held on January 7 and it will take a final decision on the future of the girl," CWC member M K Abdul Samad said.

                                                Prof. John Kurakar