The Cuttack Childline, a resource centre of the Childline Foundation of India, rescued a three-year-old child, who was left locked alone in a house near Krushaka Bazaar under the Bidanasi police station here on Thursday.
Childline caretaker Narayan Shukla said the child’s mother, a single parent, works as a domestic help in the neighbourhood. “Every day, she goes to work leaving her child locked in her single-room shanty,” Shukla said.
“This morning when people of the locality heard the child crying inconsolably and informed us, we rescued the child with the help of police after breaking open the door,” Shukla said, adding that the child is now kept in an orphanage.
Meanwhile, it was learnt that the mother of the child has approached the Cuttack District Child Welfare Committee, a quasi-judicial body, seeking an order to the Childline to return the child to her.