Following the rescue of the minor girls, chairperson Swati Maliwal identified their parents who lived on a pavement near the Anand Vihar Metro Station. The commission, during their visit, was “shocked” to find the sister of the rescued girl chained to a tree. The parents claimed that she had got addicted to drugs and that is why they had chained her, the statement said. The chairperson has initiated an inquiry into begging by children in the national capital after the rescue made during an inspection yesterday at the station, the statement said. The girls were today produced before the Child Welfare Committee (CWC) by the DCW with the request that the children be rehabilitated, it said.

Source: Indian Express November 23, 2017 18:00 UTC