‘Grandaunt of Ariyalur girl called Childline in 2020 alleging harassment by stepmother’
The Hindu
The police probe into the death of the class XII schoolgirl from Ariyalur, who ended her life recently, has established that her grandaunt had made a call to ChildLine in July 2020, alleging that the
The police probe into the death of the class XII schoolgirl from Ariyalur, who ended her life recently, has established that her grandaunt had made a call to ChildLine in July 2020, alleging that the girl was being “harassed and tortured” by her stepmother.
According to police sources, Ms. Saraswathi, who worked and retired as headmistress in Panchayat Union Middle School in Vadugapalayam in Ariyalur district, the native village of the girl, made the call to 1098, in July 2020 through a mobile phone. She had apparently contacted ChildLine based on information provided by the villagers that the girl had even been branded by her stepmother.