Two women surrender
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, July 11 2014 :
As the Churachandpur police and CWC members along with various CSOs secure the custody of two minor girls who were sold by their father from the hands of the buyers yesterday, two women who were said to be responsible for striking the deal and trans-porting the girls have report- edly surrendered before the police today, reports our Lamka correspondent.
Police sources have confirmed the women coming forward by themselves but decline to divulge further details citing ongoing investigation.
The police are debriefing the two and it believes they will be able to release details in a couple of days or so added
the source.
Meanwhile, the girl's father Thanglianmang was produced before the Chief Judicial Magistrate today and the Court remanded him into police custody for four days.
The girls meanwhile have spent their first night at their new home, Only Grace - an orphanage home run by Zomi Mothers' Association, after the Child Welfare Committee Chura-chandpur formally handed them over to the orphanage yesterday.