Panel seeks cops' help to trace girl's parents

MYSORE: Child Welfare Committee on Saturday directed the city police to produce the parents of 8-year-old bonded labourer after they failed to turn up for a hearing.
CWC member L Parashuram said that they had on Tuesday issued a summons to the girl's parents to appear before the committee on Saturday. "But they seem to have absconded. Hence, we have asked Udayagiri (jurisdiction) police to produce them during the next hearing," he added.
Meanwhile, Sumaya, the employer of the girl, had sent a letter to CWC, seeking a week's time to appear before the committee. The committee has agreed to the plea, sought on health grounds.
The girl, who was rescued on November 23, had told CWC members that Sumaya, wife of a businessman, had inhumanely treated her. The employer had allegedly burnt her palm recently. This apart, the girl had disclosed that two of her sisters are also working as bonded labourers in Mysore and Kerala. To investigate the case, the committee had summoned the girl's parents for a hearing.
Man doesn't want twin girls
The committee on Saturday encountered a strange case, wherein a man from Bangalore had abandoned his twin daughters, saying that he can't afford to bring them up. The daughters are now two-year-old.
The committee, which has directed him to undergo counseling, has reserved its order.
CWC member L Parashuram said that the man, who is from a Christian family and a bank manager, has sent his wife, a Mysorean, and their daughters to his in-laws house several months ago. But he is not ready to take them back home. He, however, had told his wife to leave the children with her parents, saying that he can't look after them.
The issue came to CWC two months ago. On Saturday, CWC summoned the man for a hearing. After hearing the arguments of the parents, the CWC asked them to undergo counselling.