Agra, Aug. 7 -- In a case of child cruelty and abandonment, a 14-year-old girl from Jalesar town in Etah district has filed a complaint against her parents for denying her the opportunity to study further in Class 10. Subsequently, a case was registered as the Child Welfare Committee in Etah took up the matter with the police.

As the parents abandoned the girl, she has now been sent to the Child Welfare Centre in Noida, according to the police.

The case was registered at the Jalesar police station on Tuesday under Section 75 (cruelty towards children) of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act 2015 against the father Digambar Singh and the mother Lata Devi, said Sudhir Kumar Singh, the officer in charge of the Jalesar...