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Minor girls rescued from lodge

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Press Trust of India Berhampur (Odisha)
Last Updated : Oct 09 2015 | 2:57 PM IST
Two minor girls were rescued from a lodge and its manager was arrested on kidnapping charge at Phulbani in Kandhamal district, police said today.
"Four motorcycle-borne youths had brought two girls, aged about 15 years, to the lodge in the morning yesterday. They have been locked up in two rooms at the lodge. We rescued the girls and handed them over to their parents last night," police officials said.
The manager of the lodge Sishira Kanta Das was arrested on the basis of a complaint lodged by the mother of a rescued girl, they said adding that efforts are on to nab the four youths.
While one girl is a Class IX student, the other a school drop-out, they said.

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First Published: Oct 09 2015 | 2:57 PM IST

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