Chandigarh: The Punjab and Haryana High Court's probe team has suggested that CRPF security be provided to the inmates of the shelter home in Rohtak that is at the centre of a baffling sex abuse case.
The HC probe panel made the recommendations after its report found shocking details of sexual exploitation of the inmates.
The report said that the children at the Apna Ghar hostel were forced to perform oral sex and naked yoga. The report also said that about 101 inmates were subjected to various forms of abuse, including being made to work as construction labourers.
A speech and hearing impaired girl was sold thrice and another girl was reportedly found pregnant. Yet another inmate was found to be HIV positive by the probe team. Most of the girls were made to garland men, saying they were 'married', and forced to consent to physical relationship....
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11:46 AM, Jun 15, 2012
In May 2008, when the economic slowdown was beginning to bite, I traveled to Rohtak for a feel-good TV story which I thought would go ...
07:17 PM, Jun 14, 2012
Chandigarh: The Punjab and Haryana High Court probe panel report on the Rohtak shelter home, Apna Ghar, has made shocking revelations. It says that the children were forced to perform oral sex and naked yoga. The report also says that about 101 inmates of the home were subjected to various forms of abuse. The shelter home inmates were used as construction labourers. A speech and hearing impaired girl was sold...
09:39 AM, Jun 14, 2012
Chandigarh: The four-member probe team looking into the Rohtak shelter abuse cases seems to be divided. Two members of the four-member probe team have submitted their report to the Punjab and Haryana High Court on reports of abuse in shelter home. But surprisingly, the other members claim they weren't consulted on the Rohtak shelter abuse case. The matter will come up for hearing in the High Court on Thursday. This...
09:54 AM, Jun 13, 2012
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11:56 PM, Jun 11, 2012
The Maharashtra Women and Child Welfare Ministry will adopt the four daughters of a woman labourer from Beed district who died during an illegal abortion last month. ...
10:53 PM, Jun 11, 2012
Days after the woman in-charge of Haryana's Apna Ghar shelter was arrested, investigations have revealed that prolonged sexual abuse may have left some of the inmates mentally ill. ...
10:40 PM, Jun 11, 2012
Chandigarh: Days after the woman, who was in-charge of a shelter called Apna Ghar in Haryana was arrested, investigations have now revealed that prolonged sexual abuse may have left some of the inmates mentally ill. Meanwhile, the investigators say that shelter home manager Jaswanti Devi, who is currently in police custody, should undergo narco-analysis test to help them unravel the chain of conspiracy which allegedly involves police and government officials....
09:08 PM, Jun 11, 2012
Chandigarh: The investigative teams looking into allegations of sexual abuse in government-run shelter homes in Haryana, will be submitting their reports to the government on Monday. This after CNN-IBN highlighted shocking stories from at least three different areas. The government is also collecting the biometric data of all inmates. A National Commission for Women team is inspecting the Rohtak shelter a full month after the horrific incidents of sexual abuse...
06:26 AM, Jun 11, 2012
Chandigarh: The Haryana government on Sunday withdrew the Indira Gandhi Mahila Shakti award given to Jaswanti Devi, the owner of the controversial shelter home at Rohtak where many women and children inmates were abused and her membership from the juvenile justice panel has also been cancelled. The state government has also suspended Jaswanti Devi's brother from the education department. The state health department has been ordered to carry out medical...
09:31 AM, Jun 10, 2012
Chandigarh: A day after the horrific tales of rape and prostitution in a government shelter in Rohtak surface, Harayana government on Saturday ordered the sealing of the shelter home. The state government has been under pressure to act after CNN-IBN highlighted the findings of a High Court team probe. The report revealed shocking details of women and children being gangraped and physically tortured. The report names the government shelter's caretaker...
09:51 AM, Jun 09, 2012
Chandigarh: The Haryana government has swung into action in the Apna Ghar shelter horror case. This after CNN-IBN had exposed how girls are being raped and forced into prostitution in the shelter home. The state's Women and Child Welfare Minister has promised to rehabilitate victims and book all culprits. For five years, it's been a journey through hell for a sexual abuse victim. Poverty forced her to leave her home...
06:34 AM, Jun 09, 2012
Here's the horrific tale of the Haryana shelter home where women and children were raped in the victims' own words. ...
07:40 PM, Jun 08, 2012
Rohtak: It is a sordid tale of exploitation and official involvement from Rohtak in Haryana where women and children at a government-aided shelter in the Chief Minister's own constituency are being abused and raped. CNN-IBN has accessed the High Court Committee's report that shows the involvement of certain Haryana government and police officials as well. The women and the children in the government shelter in the Chief Minister's constituency are...
06:59 PM, Jun 08, 2012
