National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) Chairperson Shanta Sinha said the rapes in Haryana were not just a shame for the state but for the country as a whole. "It is shocking that so many rapes and gangrapes took place within a month. There needs to be some effort from the government's part. It is a shame for Haryana and for the country as a whole," she said. ...
09:33 AM, Oct 08, 2012
The PMO steps into the Vishva Bharti university controversy at Santiniketan after a 10-year-old is forced to drink urine by her hostel warden for bedwetting. ...
11:22 PM, Jul 09, 2012
New Delhi: The Prime Minister Office(PMO) on Monday sought a report in the incident of a class 5 student of West Bengal's Visva-Bharati university school being allegedly forced to drink her own urine as a punishment for bedwetting. The PMO has also sought action against the accused in the case. A 10-year-old girl was allegedly forced to lick her urine by her hostel warden. The girl alleges that the warden...
08:35 PM, Jul 09, 2012
Kolkata: In a bizarre twist in the corporal punishment case the Visva-Bharati university in West Bengal, the 10-year-old girl's parents were arrested along with the hostel warden and later granted bail. The girl was allegedly forced to drink her own urine for bed wetting. While the warden was arrested over the allegations against her, the parents were arrested for entering the girls hostel without permission. The class 5 student of...
03:19 PM, Jul 09, 2012
Kolkata: The parents of the Class 5 girl, who was allegedly forced to drink her own urine for bed wetting, have been arrested for entering the girls hostel without permission. The warden who has been accused of punishing the girl has also been arrested. Those arrested were taken to the court. The class 5 student of the Visva-Bharati university's Patha Bhavan was allegedly forced to drink her own urine because...
12:37 PM, Jul 09, 2012
New Delhi: National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) Chairperson Dr Shanta Sinha has promised a thorough probe into the selling of babies in Uttar Pradesh. A CNN-IBN Cobra Post expose on babies for sale shows how a government hospital in Amroha in Western Uttar Pradesh has become a shop for babies. For a price, the staff of the hospital steal children of poor parents and sell them to...
08:06 AM, Apr 13, 2012
NCPCR Chairperson Shanta Sinha said that poor children have been denied education for long. ...
01:38 PM, Apr 12, 2012
New Delhi: National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) on Wednesday reacted sharply to the death of Baby Afreen, the three-month-old baby, who was allegedly beaten and abused by her father, calling it a murder. "This is very tragic and sad. The case should be brought to a logical ending. The mother will have to be given full cooperation and protection," NCPCR Chairperson Shanta Sinha said. "There is a...
11:50 AM, Apr 11, 2012
The Centre has set up a National Commission for Protection of Child Rights to ensure proper enforcement of child rights. ...
10:35 PM, Feb 23, 2007
