VELLORE: For the world, Shanti is just another housewife, but for the two little hapless girls whom she rescued and gave shelter at her home, she is indeed a Good Samaritan. It happened a fortnight ago when Shanti of Sembedu village near Vellore was returning from Bangalore on a bus. She saw the conductor asking two girls, aged nine and two, to get down, as they were travelling without tickets. Moved by the girls’ plight, Shanti, stopped the bus, got down and boarded it again, this time, along with the two girls. She took them to her village and offered them shelter for several days.However, being the wife of a daily wage labourer addicted to alcohol, Shanti couldn’t offer shelter to the the girls for long and handed them over to the Collector, requesting him to take care of them by arranging for their education and stay.Abhinaya, the elder of the two girls, refused to go back to her home in Bangalore, as she and her sister were being ill-treated by their stepmother.“When Shanti akka took me and my little sister Anusha, I was happy that I got rid of my step mother who was torturing us badly,” said Abhinaya. Collector Nagarajan handed over them to the district child welfare committee.
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