It was a missing person complaint filed at the Nedumkandam police station recently that led to the tracing a girl to Kheari village in the South Midnapur district of Bengal a few days ago.
Berayi, a 14-year-old child, had been missing from the estate lane of a cardamom plantation at Nedumkandam. Her parents filed a petition and a case was registered.
The girl had come to the State with her parents who are workers in a plantation during the school vacation back home. However, she could not go back when the school reopened. Though she had expressed her wish to go back to school and meet her friends, she was not allowed to do so. Then one day she was found missing, said the police.