A drunken father and two associates were arrested on 2016-10-31 for abandoning his five-year-old daughter while visiting Kali Puja pandals at Habra in North-24 Parganas (West Bengal).
The girl was rescued by Habra police after a woman noticed her lying unaccompanied on Habra-Ashokenagar Road and crying.
The father returned home Ashokenagar's Maniktala on Monday (2016-10-31) afternoon.
He then took his younger daughter, a Class I student, to visit Kali Puja pandals near their locality. His wife had gone to visit her maternal home with their elder daughter.
On the way, he met two of his friends and they planned to drink.
The trio went to a liquor shop and started drinking in front of the daughter. Later they hired a van-rickshaw to visit other pandals and took the girl with them. They had also been drinking on the rickshaw when things took an ugly turn. An altercation broke out and the girl fell from the van-rickshaw but her father didn't notice her missing from the vehicle. The rickshaw continued moving forward while the trio continued to fight.
A woman noticed the girl lying beside the road and raised an alarm. The Habra - Ashokenagar Road is a busy one with heavy traffic. Fortunately, no accident happened when the girl was lying alone on the road. The passersby immediately informed the cops.
The police rescued the girl and handed her over to Bandhab Corner, a child care institute in Barasat.
Her father and his two friends were arrested. Later, the mother went to the police station and appealed to the child care institute to get her back.
Police from Habra police station arrested the accused men to teach them a lesson.
