26 missing girls from Bhopal shelter home found; 2 officials suspended.
26 missing girls from Bhopal shelter home found; 2 officials suspended.
All 26 girls ‘missing’ from Bhopal shelter home have been reported to be found, action also taken against officers concerned with the matter over their alleged negligence.
According to the police, 10 girls were found in the Adampur Chawni area, 13 in slums, two in Top Nagar, and one in Raisen.
The case came to light on Thursday when National Commission for Protection Of Child Rights (NCPCR) chairman Priyank Kanungo made a surprise visit to the Aanchal Girls’ Hostel in the Parwalia area on the outskirts of Bhopal. After checking the shelter home’s register, Kanungo found that there were entries of 68 girls in it, but 26 of them were missing..
On Saturday, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, the former chief minister of Madhya Pradesh, called on the Mohan Yadav government to address the case concerning the disappearance of 26 girls from an illicit children’s home in the capital.
NCPCR chief Priyank Kanoongo claimed the girls were kept in the illegal children home and made to practice Christianity.
All the girls who went missing were living without the orders of the Child Welfare Committee. However, officials of the children’s home claimed that the children were rescued and later presented before the committee.
Two Child Development Project Officers (CDPOs) were suspended on Saturday after the FIR was filed. The officers, Brijendra Pratap Singh and Komal Upadhyay, faced suspension due to their alleged negligence in the matter.
Show-cause notices were also issued to Sunil Solanki, an officer in the Women and Child Development Department, and Ramgopal Yadav, an assistant director at the department
