Protection from trafficking

In December 2002, when she was only seven years old, Suborna was trafficked from Bangladesh to India. Along the way, the traffickers abandoned Suborna when they came across the Indian army. Suborna took shelter in the house of a village leader nearby. Unable to provide any information about herself, the village leader handed the girl over to the police. The police took Suborna to the local magistrate, who asked the village leader to make an announcement about the girl on the local radio.

Hearing about the radio announcement, Suborna's father travelled to India to collect his daughter. However, the magistrate refused to release Suborna into his care without proof that he really was the girl's father. Suborna's father returned to Bangladesh to obtain valid documentation in the form of a birth certificate. He returned once again and presented Suborna's birth certificate to the magistrate, confirming that Suborna was his daughter. Suborna was immediately released from the court's care and reunited with her father.