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15. Case of lost children:
Renu & Sparsha.

The Railway Protection Force found two 8-year-old girls on the platform on 5th November 2005. The girls were referred to Jaipur CHILDLINE. Initially the girls refused to give any details. They said that they do not have any one and their aunty makes them to beg for a living. The girls were placed in a shelter home.

In spite of repeated interaction they refused to give any information and expressed their interest to stay at the shelter home. 19th November 2005 Sparsha mentions that they are from Ajmer. Sparsha wanted to go home. Renu refused to go home. One of the team members accompanied Sparsha to Ajmer. When the child was taken to her home, the whole village gathered around the child and the team member. The villagers accused the team member of kidnapping Sparsha. Both the girls had gone missing on 5th November 2005. The matter was taken to the local police station. However the police had not heard of CHILDLINE. Jaipur CHILDLINE was contacted and the police obtained the details only to know later that Renu had run away form the shelter home. This further outraged the villagers who did not trust the team member.

Meanwhile a search was carried out to find out Renu. She was found by a concerned adult and brought to the nearest police station at Jaipur. The news was communicated between the two stations. CHILDLINE team member along with Renu's parents traveled to Jaipur to collect the child. The parents were overjoyed to see their daughter and apologized to the CHILDLINE team