One more of the 5 girls who fled from observation home in Ahmedabad, nabbed

Ahmedabad: One more of the five girls who had fled from the Vikas Gruh (observation home) in Paldi area of Ahmedabad city a week ago, was nabbed today taking the number of those caught so far to four.

PI of Paldi B S Rabari said that one more girl was nabbed on a tip of from the house of her uncle in her native village of Kayla in Virmagam taluka of Ahmedabad district.
Earlier on May 6, three others were nabbed from Nana Natva village under Santrampur police station of Mahisagar district in Central Gujarat.

The attempts to nab the fifth one were on,’ PI Rabari said.

Notably the five girls, all kept in the observation home after eloping with different men, had fled in the night of May 3. Three of them aged 17 yrs were from different vilalges of Santrampur taluka (nabbed earlier) while two others aged 16 and 18 yrs, who had also fled with them were from Viramgam. Two of the five girls also had child.

Taking suo motu cognizance , the State Women’s Commission had sent notices to the police and the authorities of the observation home to submit a report on the incident which was third such case In the last 13 months. The Vikas Gruh was also in the news last year, when a speech and hearing impaired woman was raped by a staff member.

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