Ludhiana: 38 Minors Rescued From Unregistered Shelter Home, Probe Underway

Chandigarh, August 29: A day after the Supreme Court told all the states to give a report about the shelter homes running in their respective states by September 15, 38 minors belonging to Jharkhand and Bihar who were living in a shelter home in Phullanwal in Ludhiana have been rescued.

News agency ANI reported that all the children are safe now. According to the news agency, the children haven't complained of any problem. Rashmi Saini, the District Child Protection Officer said that it was an unregistered shelter home and that enquiry is underway in the case. See the picture of the shelter home tweeted by news agency ANI:

The Supreme Court, on Tuesday, asked all states to complete the audit of the shelter homes in their respective states and instructed District Magistrates (DMs)to finalise the report by September 15. Justice Madan Bhimrao Lokur of the the Supreme Court (SC) said in his observation that it seems no one is interested in monitoring conditions in shelter homes.

The Supreme Court instruction to the states came in the wake of cases of rape and disappearance from shelter homes from various states, especially the Muzaffarpur shelter home rape case. The scandal came to light two months ago when an FIR was lodged by the social welfare department following a social audit report submitted by Mumbai-based Tata Institute of Social Sciences which mentioned sexual abuse of girls lodged at the Muzaffarpur shelter home.

It was later confirmed that at least 34 girls out of the 43 living in the shelter home in Muzaffarpur were raped, and majority among them were minors. The CBI has taken over the case and submitted its report to Patna High Court on Monday.

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