Mangaluru, May 14: A minor girl who was forced to discontinue her education and work as a domestic help for a male medical student in his rented house at Babbukatte near Thokkottu on the outskirts of the city was rescued by the Childline.
Soon after receiving a tip-off through its helpline (1098) Childline Mangaluru acted swiftly and rescued the 12-year-old child labourer.
Their centre coordinator Sampath Katti said that a joint operation was carried out along with the officials of the labour department, district child protection unit and the police.
The rescued girl hails from a poor family in Kodagu district. Her parents were working as labourers in a coffee plantation in Virajpet. The plantation proprietor's son is a student in one of the medical colleges in Mangaluru, and the girl was brought here to work as a domestic help in his rented house in Babbukatte, Sampath said.
"We will enroll the girl in a school under the 'shaale kade namma nade' programme of the Karnataka State Commission for Protection of Child Rights. The girl has been produced before the Child Welfare Committee for rehabilitation," he added.
The girl has revealed that even though she wanted to continue studies her parents forced her to work as a child labourer.
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the idiot student what will he give to society after the completion of medical... ? doctor create worst patient
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