One shelter home girl found, other still missing

Kanpur: Three days after two minor girls escaped from the government shelter home in Swarup Nagar, one was recovered by the police from Kisni area of Manipuri district on Saturday.
The police has brought the girl to Kanpur and based on the inputs provided by her, further launched searches to recover the other absconding inmate. The two minor girl inmates of the shelter home had managed to escape on Wednesday morning. This is the second such incident in the past few months. Earlier, two girl inmates of the same shelter home, who had tested positive for Covid-19 along with 55 others and were lodged at a quarantine facility at KDA Greens in Panki, had gone missing on June 26, 2020 but were later traced. The girls had alleged that they had escaped following torture at hands of other inmates.
Inspector, Swarup Nagar, Ashwini Pandey said that the recovered girl told the investigators that she had reached her boyfriend’s house in Mainpuri. She further said that she had married him and also expressed her wish of staying with her in-laws.
Pandey said both the girls escaped after climbing sewage pipe and thereafter, jumping on the other side of the boundary wall of the shelter home. From here they reached Jhakarkati bus station and took a bus heading towards Agra. While the girl said she de-boarded the bus at Etawah and reached Mainpuri, the other inmate continued to travel upto Agra from where she belongs.
An FIR against three staff of shelter home, besides four women homeguards had already been lodged at Swarup Nagar police station. The Inspector further said that an FIR following a complaint by shelter home superintendent Urmila Gupta against three staff of shelter home and four women homeguards had been lodged. Meanwhile, district magistrate and DIG visited government shelter home on Saturday. An inquiry has already been set up to probe the matter. The probe is being done by city magistrate (V). DM Alok Tiwari during his visit warned District Probationary Officer (DPO) Abhay Kumar over the issue. He also ordered DPO to conduct inspection of the shelter home every week.