Police said Gunasekaran, 46, and Kalaiarasi, 41, from Puthur village near Sirgazhi, Nagapattinam district, who were working in a brick kiln unit in Kerala, sold their three daughters aged 10, 12 and 13 years to a couple in Karaikal - Amir Ali, 55, and Jinnath Nisha, 50 -two months ago.
Officials said abject poverty had forced the couple, who begot six daughters and two sons, to sell their daughters. The couple used the money to marry off their eldest daughter.
The Karaikal couple engaged one of the girls to work at their grocery shop, the other one at their house and another at the house of their relatives - Mohamed Shafi and his wife Chellamuthu alias Ummal Haira.
The siblings did not like to work and decided to return home. They managed to communicate with one another and escaped on Monday night. They reached Karaikal bus stand with a trolley bag. Passersby who saw the three girls loitering at odd hours in the bus stand alerted the police.
A police constable questioned them and learned that their parents had sold them. He alerted the district child protection unit of the social welfare department. Protection officer G Prabhu reached the spot and took the girls to a government home.
Senior superintendent of police (Karaikal) Monika Bhardwaj said the two couples in Karaikal engaged the two girls to do household works and one in their shop. "There are no complaints of physical harassment, but there are possibilities of verbal assault. The girls are healthy and are in good frame of mind," Monika said.
She said the girls' parents could not afford to feed a big family of 10 people and decided to sell their three daughters so that they get good food and shelter. She ruled out the possibility of handing over the girls back to their parents.
"We can't hand over the children to the accused. We are looking at various options, including admitting the students in a government home and resuming their studies. We are also planning to invoke necessary acts to ensure compensation from the accused (two families who engaged the children for work) for the victims," she said.
Police registered cases against Gunasekaran, Kalaiarasi, Amir Ali, Jinnath Nisha, Mohamed Shafi and Ummal Haira under sections 342 (punishment for wrongful confinement), 370 (trafficking) and 374 (unlawful compulsory labour) of the IPC and sections 23 and 26 of the Juvenile Justice Act, 2000. Police granted them bail.
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