The police here rescued a 16-year-old girl, who had been abducted from West Bengal, following the intervention of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR). The police and the Childline authorities swung into action soon after they got the message from the NCPCR, and rescued the girl from a rented house at Vazhakkad on Saturday.
The girl from South 24 Parganas, West Bengal, had been abducted by a man hailing from the same State, and was found pregnant. She was produced before the Child Welfare Committee (CWC), and was shifted to a shelter home.
The police slapped a case under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act against the man, who had come to Kerala for work. The father of a three-year-old girl, the man had kept the minor girl as his “wife”.
