Agartala, July 16 (TIWN) After months of ordeal, the 14-year-old Tripura girl, who was trafficked and sold to a man in Rajasthan, met her family at Uttar Ratacherra in the Unakoti district of northern Tripura on Wednesday evening.

The Tripura High Court had taken suo motu cognizance of an IANS report on the sale of the poverty-stricken minor into marriage in Rajasthan. The authorities in Jaipur handed her over to a four-member Tripura officials’ team on Tuesday.

Unakoti District Superintendent of Police (DSP) Ratiranjan Debnath said the girl had returned with officials to Kailashahar (Unakoti district headquarters) on Wednesday evening. Leter she was taken to meet her family, he added.

“As per the Covid-19 protocol, she will remain in 14-day institutional quarantine in Kailashahar,” the DSP told IANS by phone.

She had tested coronavirus positive in Rajasthan, but recovered. She had the medical certificate issued in Rajasthan, he added.

Shailendra Pandya, the Rajasthan State Commission of Protection of Child Rights’ (RSCPCR) member, who had taken up the case with the National Commission of Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR), said, “I am happy she has been reunited with her family after the horrible time.”