Bangladeshi moves court for direction to take daughter back

A Bangladesh national today moved the Madras High Court, seeking a direction to grant him permission to take back to his country his daughter, now lodged in a special camp for women in Ramanathapuram district after being rescued from flesh trade.
Petitioner Sayeed Khan submitted before the bench here that Chennai-based voluntary organisation 'Prison Ministry of India' had offered to help him take his daughter back, for which the Deputy High Commission of Bangladesh at Mumbai had issued a travel permit on November 11.
He said that his daughter was in acute poverty after her husband divorced her. She had gone to Hubli on the assurance of a male relative that she would be given a job by another person there.

However, the relative sold her to a man and she was later forced into flesh trade by these persons in Bengaluru and Dindigul. She was again brought back here and was in the 'custody' of another man.
She, however, managed to escape and was rescued by a lawyer while waiting for a bus. She was then handed over to police and was lodged in the Mandapam refugee camp where she had been staying since May 22.
The petitioner said he managed to trace his daughter with the help of the NGO and wanted to take her back to Bangladesh and sought the court's intervention to do so.

He cited another instance where the court had permitted a woman from his country who had come here and was sold in similar circumstances to go back to Bangladesh with the help of the Centre.