A 14-year-old girl was rescued from a roadside eatery here a month after she was found missing from her home. The minor, a resident of Mundapara village in East Chhindawara area was missing for the past one month and her relatives had lodged a complaint at Darbha police station.
local child helpline activists and police officials spotted the girl at the road side hotel near the bus stand at Jagdalpur. The officials presented the girl before the sub-divisional judicial magistrate and later handed her over to her family.
Child welfare committee’s Narendra Panigrahi said it was child line activists and police which spotted the girl and searched for her family. After locating her family members they started the process of handing over the girl to them. The girl was handed over on the basis of a written request submitted by her mother Dulari Bai and brother Bandhu Ram.