Police to quiz parents of rescued Manipuri children
IMPHAL, June 18: Police set about quizzing the parents and guardians of the 25 children "rescued" by police in Kolkata on Wednesday (June 17) to know whether they knew about the kids' journey and the escorts. Cops in West Bengal found the kids from Senapati district in an Andhra Pradesh-bound train at the Howarh station on Wednesday morning after the three "pastors", including a man called A Athikho, accompanying the children, failed to produce relevant papers. "Soon after we knew it from West Bengal cops, I sent the sub-divisional police officer to Kaibi village in Senapati district from which the children hail," said a senior police officer in Senapati district on Thursday. "He will find out whether their parents and guardians consented to their children's journey to Andhra Pradesh with the three persons. We will act only after we get a report from him," he added. L S Salony, a member of the district's Child Welfare Committee (CWC),...