The seven-year-old girl chained for her safety at a pavement by her mother has refused to go to the children's home against the Child Welfare Committee's (CWC) suggestion. The Antop Hill Police had taken the girl and her mother to the CWC on Thursday. Having refused to shift to the children's home, the girl's condition will now be monitored by CWC.

On February 22, 2019, mid-day had reported about the girl living on a pavement at GTB Nagar, and chained by her mother, in the wake of recent incidents of rape and kidnapping of minors across the city. The child had also stopped attending school for the past eight months. The city CWC took suo motu cognisance of the matter and summoned the Antop Hill Police to present the girl and her family before the CWC bench. At this week's hearing, the committee told the girl's mother that she would be looked after at the children's home till she turns 18.