Denied opportunity to study, abandoned,girl lodges complaint against parents
AGRA, Aug. 8 -- In a case of cruelty to a child and abandonment, a 14-year-old girl from Jalesar town in Etah district has filed a complaint against her parents for denying her the opportunity to study further in Class 10. Subsequently, a case was registered as the Child Welfare Committee in Etah took up the matter with the police. As the parents abandoned the girl, she has now been sent to the Child Welfare Centre in Noida, according to the police.
Meanwhile, the parents continue to evade questions posed by the Etah police regarding their alleged mistreatment of their daughter.
"We made several attempts to speak with the parents of the abandoned girl, but they consistently avoided interaction. Since the case was registered against them on Tuesday night, the parents have not been residing in Jalesar town and are believed to have moved to Faridabad in Haryana to avoid action," Sudhir Kumar Singh, the officer in-charge of Jalesar police station, said on Thursday.
Earlier, the case was registered at the Jalesar police station on Tuesday under Section 75 (cruelty towards children) of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act 2015 against the father, Digambar Singh and the mother, Lata Devi, said Sudhir Kumar Singh.
The FIR (a copy of which is with HT) said the 14-year-old girl Bhawna, a student of Siddharth Inter College in Jalesar (Etah), asked her parents for registration for Class 10, but they (parents) stated their inability to pay her fees. The girl alleged that she was badly beaten by her father last month when she insisted on continuing her education and that of her younger brother.
According to the FIR, her parents took her to Agra Jalesar Road on July 25, where she has beaten again.
A passerby, Ankit Pradhan, intervened, rescuing Bhawna and taking her, her mother, and brother to a checkpost, the FIR said.
From there, the mother allegedly took her son and abandoned Bhawna, who, along with Ankit Pradhan, was then taken to the Jalesar Kotwali police station.
The FIR stated that Bhawna's father lodged a false complaint on Dial 112, accusing Ankit Pradhan of kidnapping his wife and children. The police have now facilitated Bhawna's registration for Class 10 and given her Rs 2000.
"The matter was handed over to the Child Welfare Committee. The police got the registration of the girl done in school for Class 10 and bought her a pair of dresses, and handed over Rs 2000 to her as it was for a noble cause. The girl has been sent to the Child Welfare Centre in Noida now," stated Sudhir Kumar Singh, the officer in-charge of Jalesar police station in Etah.
"The parents of the girl virtually abandoned and are not turning up despite being called repeatedly. As they are highly uncooperative, the Child Welfare Committee (CWC) approached the police," Singh said.
Lata Devi had married Digambar Singh 18 years ago after the death of her first husband. Both Bhawna and her younger brother, aged seven, were born to the couple. Digambar Singh is from Ballabgarh in Haryana and works in Delhi....
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