Oblivious to the surroundings around them, they sport smiles and play with each other in the Child Welfare Office here. Two boys and a girl of a family, who were missing from their home, which even officials are unable to trace, came to Vijayawada. The field staff of an NGO rescued and provided them with shelter in a home.
The elder boy, who is hearing-impared , and the other two could not give details of their parents, native place and other particulars. After informing police, the children were kept in the home, said the NGO representatives.
“A few days ago, these children were rescued from Vijayawada railway station. They were taken to a home and produced before Child Welfare Committee (CWC),” said a field staff at the railway station. Police said that there was no missing complaint registered and none had approached them about the children so far. Efforts by the CWC to trace their family members did not yield any result.
When contacted, the girl said her name is Tarunnum (7), elder brother’s name is Ikrar (10), younger one is Taibu (5), and their native place in Jalalabad (in Afghanistan) , adding that her mother Ashrun had brought them in a train and her father’s name is Ayyub.
However, the girl could not give the full address and the details of her family members. Government Railway Police DSP P. Ramakrishna said that there was no complaint related to child missing case from Jalalabad.
“If the children are from Jalalabad in Afghanistan, how and why did they travel up to Vijayawada. Who others came along with them and why their parents had left them here are the big questions which remain unsolved,” said the NGO head.
CWC Chairman B. Nagesh Rao said that the parents deliberately abandoned the children at railway station. We are trying to find out whether Tarunnum, Ikrar and Taibu are from India or any other country. “We have decided to send the three siblings to the State Home in Hyderabad.
The CWC is making efforts to reunite the children with their family,” Mr. Nagesh Rao told The Hindu.
Vijayawada Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) D. Srinivas Reddy, who was heading the team to trace missing persons, said there was no complaint with the missing team too. However, police are ready to help the NGOs or CWC in tracing the family of the missing siblings, he said.
