‘Abducted’ minor girl rescued in Rayagada
‘Abducted’ minor girl rescued in Rayagada
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Rayagada: Police learned that the teenager they had rescued from a Maoist-controlled area in the forest in Odisha's Rayagada district was actually an adult who had left with her boyfriend.
According to sources, the girl's parents reported their 16-year-old daughter missing on October 7 at the Bisam Katak police station. As soon as a case was filed, ASI Rosalin Nayak began an investigation. The ASI put the girl's phone under tracing so he could find out where it was in the Kotgad police-controlled village of Biramaha.
Nayak proceeded to Biramha with a police team and asked the locals there about the girl. The police squad headed to the location after learning that the girl and a boy, identified as Pata Majhi of the hamlet, had gone to a hill for farming labour.
The cops arrived at the hilltop after a 15 kilometre hike through a deep forest in a Maoist-affected area close to the border of Kandhamal district. They took the girl to the Bisam Katak police station after discovering her there.
The girl asserted that she was not a juvenile when questioned. Her age was over 18 according to the matriculation certificate she presented to the police.
She also admitted to the police that she had been in love with Pata Majhi for a while and that the two of them intended to wed. She had not revealed their relationship to her family and left the house with him out of concern that they would chastise her.
In the presence of a magistrate, the police took down the girl's statement and spoke with the families of both the boy and the girl. The authorities let the young couple be married and then released the girl.
The girl was saved from a Maoist attack by the ASI at the danger of her life, and the higher ranking police officers praised the ASI's bravery.
