Woman trafficked from Vijayawada to TN 23 years ago returns to look for her family

After recently losing her adoptive mother, Latha has sought the police’s help to look for her biological family, who she says live in Vijayawada.
Woman trafficked from Vijayawada to TN 23 years ago returns to look for her family
Woman trafficked from Vijayawada to TN 23 years ago returns to look for her family
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A Tamil Nadu woman approached the Vijayawada police on Monday, looking for help to get in touch with her biological family from whom she was separated from 25 years ago. 32-year-old Latha had run away from her home in Vijayawada some time in 1996, angry with her parents for reprimanding her about being irregular in school. As she wandered about the Vijayawada bus stand, a woman trafficked her to Tamil Nadu, where she sold the child to a woman who wanted to adopt a child for Rs 500, Times of India reported. 

After recently losing her adoptive mother, Latha decided to look for her biological family. According to The New Indian Express, the Latha’s husband Kanchivanam doesn’t have a family either. When she opened up to him about her past, her husband supported her in finding her biological family, accompanying her to Vijayawada in her search. 

Latha, who was earlier called Adilakshmi by her Vijayawada family, has been able to recall her family member’s names and a few other details. She remembered that her parents’ names were Chenchamma and Narayana, and her brothers’ names were Nooka Raju, according to The Hindu. She was also able to recall that her father was an auto driver and that their house was along the side of a canal bund. 

Latha now lives in Madurai, and told her story to the Vijayawada police during the Spandana program (a weekly grievance redressal program in Andhra government departments) in Tamil, as the Commissioner of Police heard it through an interpreter, assuring to help her in her search, according to The Hindu. 

While the police are looking for the family based on the clues provided, and by looking into missing cases filed in the city in 1996, they have also requested the media and public to give publicity to Latha’s story so she can be reconciled with her biological family. 

Latha’s visit to the city came a day after a teenaged girl named Bhavani, who went missing from Hyderabad when she was four, was reunited with her biological family. Her employer in Vijayawada helped her get in touch with her family through Facebook. 

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