Imphal, March 28: A seven-year-old boy from Sikkim engaged as a domestic help at the house of a school principal in Imphal city was rescued along with a girl yesterday.
The Childline Imphal activists, led by its co-ordinator Mala Lisam, rescued the boy and the five-year-old girl from Manipur’s Ukhrul district during a raid on Narmada Rana’s residence.
Rana, a Nepali, is the principal and the owner of the Narmada English School at Zomi Villa of Imphal city.
The raid came after another girl, aged eight, had fled the principal’s house and was rescued on March 26. She is the elder sister of the girl rescued yesterday. The raid was conducted with the permission of the state welfare department and Child Welfare Committee (CWC), Imphal West.
Child rights activists said all the three children were Nepalis. The activists said there were signs that the children were employed as domestic help and were being ill-treated.
The principal claimed that the children were relatives and were being educated at her school.
However, activists said the children did not seem to be relatives. Members of the CWC Imphal West held a meeting yesterday to discuss their course of action. “We will make inquiries into the case and take the necessary steps. We made spot inquiries yesterday but are yet to know everything,” said Annie Mangsatabam, the chairperson of the Imphal West CWC.
She said the CWC requested the social welfare department to contact the Sikkim government to trace the boy’s relatives.
Source: The Telegraph
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