Madurai: Thanks to the efforts of the Madras High Court, a 12-year-old girl, subjected to physical abuse by her relatives, has been reunited with her mother, a widow who had remarried.

Earlier the girl was rescued by the Thanjavur district child welfare committee on a complaint from neighbours. A division bench of the court's Madurai bench, comprising Justice M. Sathyanarayanan and Justice V.M. Velumani, disposing of habeas corpus petition filed by the mother, directed the District Child Welfare Officer to relieve the girl from the Government Orphanage, where she had been lodged.