BHOPAL: Two girls - aged 11 and 15 - were shifted to a shelter home in

at 1am on Sunday. The move came after their father reached Ashoka Garden police station around 11 pm on Saturday after his wife threw him and his three children out of the house following a spat.

The police arranged for the man and his 13-year-old son to stay in a night-shelter while the girls were handed over to a shelter home through the City Childline.

Director of City Childline, Archana Sahaye, told TOI that the couple had a dispute following which the woman threw her children and husband out of the house and locked the door. Despite several attempts, she did not open the door.

"The man reached the Ashoka Garden police station around 11 pm and they tried to call up the wife to help the two reconcile. When the wife did not budge, the husband asked the police officers to help him arrange for a safe place for his daughters while the boy stayed with him at a nearby Rain basera," said Sahaye.

The Childline team coordinated with the Ashoka Garden police and got a shelter home in the city to help the two.

"It was freezing and after all the efforts by the police and the husband to make the wife take them back proved futile, the girls were sent to a shelter home at 1 am. They will be kept there till such time the couple sort out their differences," Sahaye added.

Ashoka Garden station house officer Umesh Yadav said that cops have called the wife to the police station on Monday and as they did not file an FIR, because it was the couple's personal issue, the man and his wife will be sent for counselling.

"The girls are safe in the shelter home and the boy is with his father. We will try to provide the couple with proper counselling and make the wife take her family back. We could not talk to the girls on Sunday, but will record their statement if the need arises. So far, an FIR has not been lodged and we are hoping that the couple will sort out their differences for the sake of the children," said Yadav.