Tribal leaders thwart bid to traffic 4 girls, hand over trio to Gudalur cops

A bid by a group of three Keralities to lure four tribal girls in Gudalur into child labour was thwarted when community leaders, finding their activities suspicious, intercepted the trio and handed them over to the Gudalur police on Saturday.

-  S SENTHIL KUMAR

Police on Sunday arrested the two women and a man on charges of attempting to traffic four tribal children from the Srimadurai Panchayat.

The arrested have been identified as T Mubharish Lal, (33) Y Sunira Kuruniyan, a broker, and I Byrusa (37), a relative of Lal. All three are natives of Malapuram district in Kerala but Sunira was residing in Srimadurai panchayat.