Summary:
Velumani directed the District Child Welfare Officer Suganthavalli to relieve the girl from Annai Sathya Government Orphanage, where she had been lodged temporarily, and hand over her custody to the petitioner. She and her daughter Saranya allegedly abused the girl physically leading to registration of a criminal case against them. The 12-year-old was abused by her relatives and was rescued by a child welfare panelThe Madras High Court Bench here has helped a 12-year-old girl, subjected to physical abuse by her relatives and rescued by the Thanjavur District Child Welfare Committee, to reunite with her mother who had remarried after the death of her first husband. Disposing of a habeas corpus petition filed by the woman, S.
Sathya, a Division Bench of Justices M.
Sathyanarayanan and V.M. They also recorded the wish of the child to go along with her mother..