30 Nov, 2006 Times News Network
GADAG/HUBLI: The courage shown by a seventh-standard girl could very well lead to her sister's freedom and also give the police a clue as to where many other missing children of Sortur village of Shirahatti taluk in Gadag are.
When this girl, Soumya, and her sister Neelamma, studying in tenth standard, went missing from Gadag bus stand a month ago, few knew that they had been sold by their unscrupulous father.
The pieces started falling into place after Soumya ran away from her captors and sought the help of Gujarat Police who contacted Gadag superintendent of police K V Shridhar.
What's intriguing is that even though for a month the children have been missing, their parents never filed a police complaint.
The mother of the children told a police team that visited the village that the children had gone to Maharashtra. The father, Shenkappa Khannur, is not traceable and is reported to be hiding with his son in Bangalore.
Shridhar, who suspects this to be a case of sale of girls, told The Times of India on Thursday that the help of Bangalore police had been sought.
The incident has now rattled the villagers who suspect that Ramana Tavaknavar of the same village has acted as a middleman in the sale of the girls for Rs 1 lakh each to some people in Gujarat.
They feel that many other children who had disappeared in the past might have also been similarly sold.
A team of police personnel from Gadag is on its way to Surat to bring the two girls back to Sortur village. Once they are back, the police will register a case and begin investigation.
GADAG/HUBLI: The courage shown by a seventh-standard girl could very well lead to her sister's freedom and also give the police a clue as to where many other missing children of Sortur village of Shirahatti taluk in Gadag are.
When this girl, Soumya, and her sister Neelamma, studying in tenth standard, went missing from Gadag bus stand a month ago, few knew that they had been sold by their unscrupulous father.
The pieces started falling into place after Soumya ran away from her captors and sought the help of Gujarat Police who contacted Gadag superintendent of police K V Shridhar.
What's intriguing is that even though for a month the children have been missing, their parents never filed a police complaint.
The mother of the children told a police team that visited the village that the children had gone to Maharashtra. The father, Shenkappa Khannur, is not traceable and is reported to be hiding with his son in Bangalore.
Shridhar, who suspects this to be a case of sale of girls, told The Times of India on Thursday that the help of Bangalore police had been sought.
The incident has now rattled the villagers who suspect that Ramana Tavaknavar of the same village has acted as a middleman in the sale of the girls for Rs 1 lakh each to some people in Gujarat.
They feel that many other children who had disappeared in the past might have also been similarly sold.
A team of police personnel from Gadag is on its way to Surat to bring the two girls back to Sortur village. Once they are back, the police will register a case and begin investigation.
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