Minor girl returns home after 3 months following Tripura HC's direction

Agartala, Oct 01 (UNI) Tripura High Court has ordered the State government to return a minor girl to her parents without delay. She had been kept at a home in Agartala for three months. Accordingly, today Social Welfare officials handed her over to her parents in Gandacherra, in Tripura's Dhalai district. A division bench led by Chief Justice M S Ramachandra Rao issued the order while hearing a habeas corpus petition filed by the girl's father, Gopal Das, and found that officials had sent the girl to a child care facility without following the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of…