A 16-year-old girl of Gajapati district has been rescued by police while roaming near the Varkala beach in Kerala with a Dalal (middleman). Sources said the girl, a resident of Sabar Sahi at Jirang Colony under Mohana block in Gajapati district, had gone to his sister’s house in Kerala around eight months back.
After a few days, she had gone to Trivandrum with her brother-in-law and stayed in her uncle’s house there. Seeing the Kerala police, the Dalal, who was roaming with the girl near a cottage near the beach in a suspicious way, fled away. later, the police enquired about the matter and handed over the girl to the district anti-human trafficking unit there.
later, she brought back to Odisha by members of a voluntary organisation and handed over to the Gajapati Child Welfare Committee (CWC). The girl would be handed over to her family after some required inspection, said CWC Chairman Binod Chandra Jena and District Child Protection Officer Arun Tripathy.