Protesting her early marriage, a teenaged minority community girl took an exemplary step by skipping her marriage proposal and lodging a complaint against her parents in the district on Friday.
Following intervention of the district Child Protection Cell (CPC), the victim girl was shifted to a children’s home here.
The courageous girl was identified as Affrin Ali (15), daughter of one Sanaulla Ali, a resident of Budhapada village under Biridi area. The girl has passed HSC examination from Janta Vidya Pitha in Biridi this year. Reports said the victim girl, after completion of matriculation, was interested to continue her higher study in college but her parents decided to marry her off and selected a groom from nearby Hazipur village.
Under mounting pressure from the family to agree with the marriage proposal, the girl fled home on Friday wee hours and reached at Jagatsinghpur PS where she disclosed her miseries before the cops. The police acted promptly and asked district CPC authority for intervention.
CPC protection officer Udaya Nath Swain and counsellor Sushant Mohanty immediately brought the victim girl to the district CPC office. The girl’s parents were invited to attend a counselling held in CPC office under chairmanship of CPC president Dr Raghunath Jena and other members to sort out the crisis but it yielded little result. The victim girl did not agree to return home in spite of family members’ promise to not to go ahead with the marriage proposal. later, the victim girl was sent to the local Sishu Asharm, an orphanage.