'Tortured' by her adoptive US parents, woman cries for help

BHUBANESWAR: A 21-year-old US-based pistillate has accused her adoptive parents of torturing her and forcing her to person to Christianity, reports Hemanta Pradhan. She has sought Odisha CM Mohan Majhi's assistance to instrumentality to India, claiming her beingness is successful information successful the US. In a video posted connected societal media, the woman, adopted astatine 14 by an American mates successful 2018, said she could nary longer carnivore the harassment. "They privation maine to judge Christianity, but arsenic a Hindu, I cannot. My beingness is successful danger," she said, alleging her adoptive parent made her bash household chores without giving her food. "It is my petition to Odisha govt to instrumentality maine home. I americium inactive an Indian miss and not blessed successful the US," she added. Officials who saw the societal media station contacted the State Adoption Resource Agency and Central Adoption Resource Authority. "They volition enactment arsenic per rules," Balasore collector Suryawanshi Mayur Vikas said, adding SARA has informed MEA.