All of 11 years, Caroline Malsawmtluangi, a class IV student of Muana Primary School at Zuangtui locality here has won hearts with her stellar act of saving a minor from being abducted.

She not only saved the seven-year-old from the clutches of the kidnappers, but also reunited the child with her family after four days.

The braveheart will be felicitated on Monday by two NGOs for her exemplary courage.

Caroline told The Telegraph how she had rescued the child from the clutches of her abductor.

On June 10, Caroline spotted a woman, accompanied by a child, both new to the locality. She was playing volleyball with her friends near her house at the time.

The next day, two policemen visited Zuangtui in search of a girl who had gone missing from a village in Lunglei district.

“The policemen enquired about the missing girl and the alleged abductors from my family. They showed me the photographs and I told them that I had seen them a day earlier,” Caroline said.

She was asked by the police to inform them if she saw the girl and the woman again and they gave her mother a phone number on which she could reach the police.

On Wednesday, Caroline had gone to a tailor with her aunt. While returning home, she spotted the child and the woman again.

The woman approached Caroline and sought her help to find some daily wage labourers who had borrowed money from her.

“I told her that I was a child so I could not do such a job. I said I could instead look after the little girl while she went in search of the labourers who worked at a resthouse.

As soon as the woman went to collect money from the workers, Caroline picked up the little girl and ran towards her home. When the woman saw them, she ordered Caroline to stop and threatened to hit her with stones.

But Caroline continued to run and on reaching home, told her grandfather and a homeguard that the woman was chasing her.

“My grandfather and the guard rushed towards the woman and caught her,” she said. She was handed over to police.

The accused was later identified as Zonunsangi Fanai, 31, a resident of Thualtu village in southern Mizoram’s Lunglei district.

She had abducted the child from the village and brought her to Aizawl on Sunday, police said. She was handed over to Lunglei police on Wednesday night along with the child who was reunited with her parents, they said.

Community Health Action Network, an anti-trafficking group of the Salvation Army Church and Mizo Hmeichhe Insuihkhawm Pawl, the lone woman body in Mizoram, will honour the girl for her exemplary courage on Monday.