Tamil Nadu: Dad, 5 others booked for sale of 3-year-old girl

TRICHY/MADURAI: The Nagore police on Wednesday booked six people, including the

father

of a three-year-old girl, for selling her to a Kovilpatti-based couple a few months ago. The girl was rescued by

Tuticorin

district child protection unit (DCPU) with the help of police.

The accused were M Ashraf Ali, 40, of Vellapallam in Nagapattinam, his friend Hasan Mohammed, an autorickshaw driver, and his friend

Mehrunnisha

from Nagore, the

Kovilpatti

couple Renabu Nisha and Abdul Razak, and Nisha’s relative Fatima from Nagore.

Ashraf Ali, a van driver from Tenkasi, and Nirmala, a fish-seller from Vellapallam, married in 2015 and the couple has a one-and-a-half-year-old son and a daughter. The couple fell out and Nirmala left Ali to live with her parents, leaving behind the children with her husband.

Ashraf Ali claims he could not take care of his children and decided to admit his daughter to a madrassa. For this, he sought the help of Hasan Mohammed, who admitted her to a Madurai-based madrassa on February 19. On coming to know that her daughter was not with her husband, Nirmala pressured him to bring her back.


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