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8-year-old girl bought for Rs 6,000 from West Bengal rescued

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April 28, 2012

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Nagpur, April 28: An eight-year-old girl allegedly bought from West Bengal for Rs 6,000 and employed as domestic help by a couple at Nehru Nagar was rescued on Friday afternoon by team of Childline, an NGO, along with two constables from Gittikhadan police station.

The matter is being probed by Gittikhadan police station. Cops said they were still talking to the victim and interrogating the couple and were yet to register an offence.

According to the Childline activist, the girl was bought by the couple Pradeep Banerjee and his wife last year when she was seven.

Banerjee told police that the girl's mother had passed away when she was six and hence her father wanted to give the girl in adoption.

Her father is a migrant labourer. Banerjee, 56, is a senior executive in a leading private company.

Since the girl can only speak Bengali, police and activists are not able to communicate properly with her. Childline activist said she seemed scared and shocked and not in condition to tell anything. She understands a bit of Hindi as she spoke a few words with a female constable.

"She needs some time to open up. We will be counselling the girl for two days and then record her statement," said the activist.

On initial interrogation the girl stated that since from the first day she was brought home, she has been doing domestic work. She was not allowed to go outside and talk to anybody. On receiving information from the people from Nehru Nagar, city coordinator Barnic Gangmei and his team headed by Chhaya Gurav and Margaret Kujur raided Banerjee's home at Nehru Nagar at around 4.30 pm.

"Banerjee allowed us to check the home and we found the girl in the kitchen. She was sitting on a table with her head down. We brought her out and she didn't even stop us. Her eyes appeared dull and she was underweight," said Gurav.

The condition in which the girl was sitting seems she was kept for either domestic help or to look after Pradeep's wife who is reportedly suffering from psychological problem, claimed Gurav.

Banerjee told police that the couple lost their only son in a road mishap two years ago and since then his wife is under trauma. "We wanted to adopt a child but since we are very old and could not fulfill the adoption criterion, we were not allowed. Later, one of our relative told us about the girl's father who was willing to give the girl in adoption," Banerjee said in his statement to the cops.

Banerjee explained that he took care of girl as his daughter and was looking for a Bengali school to continue her studies.

Childline activists said there is a Bengali school at Nehru Nagar but Banerjee had not taken her there or at any others. Police took the girl to Indira Gandhi Government Medical College and Hospital (IGGMCH) for age determination. Activists said she would be kept at an institution at Shradhanandpeth until Monday.


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July 28,2020

Noida, Jul 28: A doctor admitted at a private hospital in Noida has been accused of sexually harassing a patient in his isolation ward, where both were undergoing treatment for COVID-19, the police said.

The 20-year-old woman, in her complaint to the police, alleged that the incident took place on Monday and based on that a case was filed at the local expressway police station, they said.

A senior police official said an investigation is underway and there might be lapses on part of the hospital which allegedly admitted a man and a woman in the same isolation ward, in violation of the norms.

The woman and the doctor had tested positive for coronavirus last week, according to officials.

"The woman was in the isolation ward of the private hospital. There was a man, a medical practitioner, who too was infected with coronavirus and was sharing the ward with her," Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police, Noida, Ranvijay Singh said.

He said the woman alleged molestation and upon being informed, the police immediately lodged a case and initiated a probe into the matter.

"There appears to be some irresponsibility on part of the hospital too. We are communication with the medical departments to check whether the patients were being kept in accordance with the guidelines," Mr Singh said.

He said the accused is still in isolation but the police will reach out for his statement following due protocols of COVID-19.

"All necessary action will be taken as per the truth that will emerge after a thorough investigation," Mr Singh said.

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May 28,2020

Hyderabad, MAY 28: A three-year-old boy who accidentally fell into a newly drilled open borewell in Telangana's Medak district was found dead in the early hours of Thursday, police said.

The kid's body was retrieved at around 4 am after a nearly 10 hours' long rescue operation involving different agencies, they said.

"He died a while before we evacuated him, most likely due to the mud that covered him from the top sealing off necessary oxygen supply, " Medak District Superintendent of Police Chandana Deepti told PTI.

The boy had accidentally slipped into the 120- feet borewell at around 5 pm on Wednesday in an agricultural field located in Papannapet mandal of the district when he was walking with his grandfather and father, police earlier said.

As part of rescue efforts, a parallel trench was dug along the borewell hole with the help of earth excavating machines and oxygen was supplied into it, but the efforts went in vain as the boy's body was found stuck at a depth of around 25 feet, the police said.

Apart from the police, National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) personnel were also involved in the rescue operation.

The borewell into which the child fell was one among the three dug by the family since Tuesday night to try and find water for their fields. But none of them yielded any water, police had said.

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January 8,2020

Muzaffarpur, Jan 8: There is no evidence of murder of children in Bihar's Muzaffarpur shelter home, the CBI on Wednesday told the Supreme Court.

The probe agency told the apex court that two skeletons were recovered from the home's premises which were later, in forensic investigation, found to be of a woman and a man.

A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde accepted the status report of the CBI and allowed two officers to be relieved from the investigation team.

Attorney General K K Venugopal, appearing for the probe agency, said investigation was done on allegations of rape and sexual assault of children and charge sheets have been filed before the courts concerned.

Venugopal said the children, who were alleged to have been murdered, were later traced and found to be alive.

He said the CBI has investigated cases of 17 shelter homes in Bihar and charge sheets have been filed in 13 of them, while in four cases the preliminary inquiry was conducted and later closed as no evidence of any wrongdoing was found.

The probe agency, in its status report filed on Monday, said no incriminating evidence proving commission of any criminal offence could be gathered in four preliminary enquiries and as such no FIR has been registered.

The CBI had also said the Bihar government has been requested to take departmental action and action of cancellation of registration and blacklisting of concerned NGOs by providing them the result of investigation, i.e., the CBI report.

Several girls were allegedly sexually and physically assaulted at a shelter home run by an NGO in Bihar's Muzaffarpur. The issue had come to light following a report by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS).

Following the report, a petition was filed in the apex court seeking lodging of an FIR and court-monitored probe by an independent agency into the allegations.

The plea filed by journalist Nivedita Jha through advocate Fauzia Shakil has sought "registration of FIR and independent investigations or court monitored probe into the affairs of these 14 (other) shelter homes in Bihar mentioned in the TISS report".

The apex court had directed the CBI to probe the offences under the Information Technology Act regarding the video recordings of the alleged assault on girls at the shelter home.

It had also directed the agency to investigate the role of "outsiders who were involved and facilitated the sexual assaults on the inmates", after administering them intoxicants and also against those who allegedly indulged in trafficking of girls from the shelter home.

The apex court had earlier directed the CBI to complete its probe into the alleged murder of 11 girls at the shelter home and asked it to file a status report.

The SC had transferred the case from Bihar to a Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) court in Saket District Court complex in Delhi.

Earlier, the top court had directed the CBI to conduct a probe into allegations of physical and sexual abuse of inmates in 16 other shelter homes in Bihar which were flagged in the TISS report.

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