Chhatarpur, Madhya Pradesh:
Unable to feed her two girls, a widow has handed over her two minor daughters to an orphanage in Chhatarpur, Madhya Pradesh.
"Rachana Raikwar, a labourer residing in Ward Number two, handed over her both daughters -- Mohini (8) and Anjali (6) to Samvedana Orphanage as she is in a penury," sources close to her, said.
The orphanage management conceded to her demand yesterday, a day after she threatened to kill self and her children if they did consider her demand to raise her daughters there, they said.
Rachana's ordeal started when her husband Mahesh Raikwar died in December 2009 following which she, along with her daughters, had approached her in-laws. But they did not allow the trio to stay with them at Khomp Tiwari village.
Later, she came to her parents house who also refused to let her in.
Rachana said that she would have happily reared her children, had she got some financial help from the government running welfare schemes like widow pension scheme.