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More sexual abuse cases surface in Haryana government-aided shelter homes

naeem@coastaldigest.com (IBNLive)
June 10, 2012

Chandigarh, June 10: It is not just in the Rohtak shelter home where its intimates were abused and exploitated. The Haryana government is now investigating at least four shelters for alleged abuse and torture of inmates. But the Haryana government is busy passing the buck for its oversight that led to owner of the Rohtak Shelter home Jaswanti Devi being awarded the first Indira Gandhi Nari Shakti award.


Just two days after CNN-IBN exposed a horrific tale of child abuse, gang-rape and sexual exploitation at a Rohtak shelter in Haryana, a follows up has revealed another shocker. Now a shelter in Yamunangar, where the rescued girls were sent, is under the scrutiny for sexual harassment.


City magistrate Puja Chavriya says the administration received information of abuse at the home. She has begun investigations, and is to present her report shortly.

It's clear that Rohtak is not an isolated case - there is a pattern of abuse at several shelter homes. There are four homes under investigation, but it could just be the tip of the iceberg.


Shelter homes currently being investigated are Apna Ghar in Rohtak, Bal Kunj in Chachraulli-Yamunanagar, Royal in Hansi, Suparna Ka Angan in Gurgaon.


There was systemic failure in Haryana in terms of monitoring and supervision of shelter homes. The problem is not just limited to Rohtak. It has spread far wider. On the backfoot, the Haryana government in the meantime is busy playing a blame game.

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February 19,2020

Bengaluru, Feb 19: Bengaluru City Crime Branch (CCB) on Wednesday raided a spa in Koramangala area and rescued six girls.

The owner of the spa is absconding and the manager has been arrested.

Further details are awaited.

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January 20,2020

Ahmedabad, Jan 20: Cops in Gandhinagar fell in a catch-22 situation when a state government employee approached them with a complaint that the 26-year-old woman class teacher of his 14-year-old son had gone missing taking his son in tow. The man, who works at Udyog Bhavan in Gandhinagar said the woman had seduced his teenage son, who studies in class VIII and taken him away with her. The boy had gone missing from 4pm on Friday, and the classteacher was also missing.

A police official said the woman teacher had been too intimate with the allegedly missing boy for around a year, and the school authorities had recently rebuked them. “As their relationship was unaccepted, they left their homes on Friday,” he said. It was rare to find a case of a woman teacher eloping with her teenage student, the official added.

An FIR for elopement under Section 363 IPC has been registered with Kalol city police in Gandhinagar district. The complaint stated the teacher is a resident of Darbari chawl in Kalol town.

“When I reached home at around 7pm, I found my son missing. My wife told me he had left home at around 4pm. We searched for him in the neighbourhood and among relatives, but couldn’t trace him,” claims the teenage boy’s father in the FIR. “I went to the teacher’s house but they were not there,” the man stated.

Inspector K K Desai of Kalol city police said the missing duo could not be traced as they were not carrying cellphones.

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