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Agartala: A four-month-old baby in Tripura has been rescued after allegations that his mother sold him for Rs 4,000 due to extreme poverty. The incident came to light when CPI(M) Bishalgarh sub-divisional committee secretary Partha Prathim Majumdar alleged in a Facebook post that a woman from Basumati Tea Estate in Sipahijala district sold her child for Rs 4,000 due to extreme poverty. Gave. He claimed that the woman has four children and she is taking care of them alone.
Action taken when Facebook post went viral
Police officials said that as soon as the post went viral, the administration swung into action with the help of Child Line and sent personnel to the hut where the woman lives. He said that during investigation the child was found with a couple from Udaipur in Gomti district. From there the police rescued the child and returned him to his mother.
Police did not receive any complaint
Bishalgarh’s Additional SDM Debjani Chaudhary said that the administration has not received any complaint that the child has been sold by his mother. It appears that the woman has been separated from her husband who is a tea garden labourer. It is also true that her husband was missing when our team visited there.
He said the woman’s family got a house under the PM Awas Yojana besides a family ration card, but she lives in a hut inside the tea garden with her four children. He said, “We will provide financial and other assistance to the woman.
Six Bangladeshis arrested
Meanwhile, in another incident, a total of six Bangladeshi nationals, including three transgender people, who were planning to go to Mumbai from Tripura, were arrested from a railway station in West Tripura district. On Friday, an official said that all the Bangladeshis caught did not have valid documents to stay in India. Following a tip-off about the movement of a group of Bangladeshis, a joint team of Government Railway Police (GRP) and Railway Protection Force (RPF) stepped up surveillance at Jiraniya railway station on Thursday, he said.
Agartala GRP station in-charge Tapas Das told reporters that around 4.30 pm, GRP personnel noticed suspicious movement of a group of people on the platform. When asked, he claimed that he was an Indian and came from Bishalgarh in Sipahijala district of Tripura. However, after strict interrogation, he confessed that he had come from Bangladesh.
Input- PTI
