‘She was speaking some dialect which none of us could understand’

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The Child Welfare Council, Ambala, sent her to Ashiana Child Care Home, Sector 16, Panchkula, and informed the Anti-Human Trafficking Cell, State Crime Branch. A team led by Inspector Ramesh Chand then started locating the girl’s parents.

“She was speaking some dialect which none of us could understand. So, we called some migrants to help decipher what she was saying. But we still could not get a clue until we took her to Command Hospital, Chandimandir, where the mystery about her language and home state was finally unravelled. A number of Army doctors gathered, and then, one of them told us that she was speaking a Bengali dialect,” said Assistant Sub-Inspector Mukesh Rani, Anti-Human Trafficking Cell, State Crime Branch.

She was identified as Kaveri, who belonged to Chandmari in Pargana District, West Bengal.  The police contacted the Station House Officer (SHO), Chandmari, who confirmed the address, but said that her parents had left for Delhi four months ago. “Humein laga ab kahani khatam (We thought now the story is over),” recalled Rani.

Head Constable Rajesh Kumar then visited the Delhi Railway Station to enquire about the missing children, and found a DDR about the missing girl by her father Palash who worked at Gharola village in Gurgaon.

On Thursday, Palash visited Panchkula along with some of his relatives and took his daughter back. “She is our only child. She was coming along with her mother to Gurgaon in a train, but at the Delhi railway station, she got lost. We registered a police complaint.

We had given up hope until the SHO told me that he had got a call from Punjab [mistaken for Panchkula] about my daughter. Main gaon se kagaz laya, aur bass aa gya [I brought the required documents and came to take my daughter],” said Palash, speaking over the phone from Gurgaon.