The day the Supreme Court upheld the validity of Aadhaar, the much-debated identity card helped reunite a 26-year-old woman and her newborn with their family.
More than seven months after Nisha was found wandering on East Coast Road in Chennai, members of different NGOs and Chennai Corporation worked in unison and traced her family to Uttar Pradesh.
It was on February 22 that the Neelankarai police rescued her and handed her to the Shelter for Urban Homeless Women at Panaiyur.
“We found that she was two months pregnant during a routine medical check-up after she was handed over to us. She was found to be mildly depressed. She refused to say a word. However, we continued to take her for psychiatric counselling,” said I. Rita Iyyappan, programme director of Little Hearts, an NGO that runs the shelter.