The Calcutta High Court has ordered a CBI probe into death of three women at a government shelter for the mentally ill in Gurap. This came after it found the CID probe into the case to be unsatisfactory. ...
01:30 PM, Feb 18, 2013
Panaji: An inquiry into affairs of 'Apna Ghar', a state-run shelter home for children, has revealed that the staff was "scared" of the minor boys there and did not even sit next to them. The Goa government appointed Levinsons Martins inquiry has pointed out that the staff has told the committee that they even feared for their life as some of the inmates have assaulted them in the past. The...
12:50 PM, Aug 04, 2012
New Delhi: Days after the shocking stories of abuse at the Apna Ghar shelter home in Rohtak, Haryana, another shelter in Karnal has been shut down after allegations of sexual and physical abuse surfaced. A case has been registered against Monica Das, who runs the Apna Ghar shelter in Karnal. All the inmates, 6 boys and 5 girls, have been shifted to other shelter homes. A medical examination showed that...
06:42 AM, Aug 04, 2012
Kolkata: In a shocking incident, a mentally ill woman has been allegedly raped and murdered inside a government-funded shelter home in West Bengal. The state CID has taken over the probe and is unearthing remains of more bodies of girls which have been illegally disposed. As many as 10 people have been arrested in the case. The body of Gudiya, the 32-year-old mentally ill woman, was found buried inside the...
06:44 PM, Jul 19, 2012
Nanjangud (Karnataka): Left in the wild to get killed, many of them do not know where they came from and who they are. The shelter home Karunalaya, on the edge of Karnataka's Bandipur Tiger Reserve, provides the 55-odd mentally challenged to eke out their existence with some dignity. "These unfortunate people are immune from hope and despair. They are not waiting for anyone, as no one will come to take...
10:47 AM, Jul 06, 2012
Ghaziabad: Reacting to a report on CNN-IBN on the sorry state of affairs in government shelters for children, the Akhilesh Yadav government has cracked down. The government has suspended the superintendent of the Ghaziabad observation home from where children were reported missing. Zubeida Khan, who is the superintendent of the home, has been suspended along with two other staff of the government shelter. Last week, CNN-IBN had reported how within...
04:32 PM, Jun 26, 2012
Allahabad: After Haryana, comes another shelter shocker, this time from Uttar Pradesh. And again like the last time, it is the government-run shelters that are in the net. While four minor girls were allegedly abused in Allahabad, six went missing from Ghaziabad, many fearing that they may have been forced into the flesh trade. On April 5, 2012, a peon working at the Rajkiya Bal Grih in Allahabad, allegedly sexually...
01:58 PM, Jun 19, 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
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: 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
Duncan Grant and Allan Waters were convicted in for sexual abuse of minor boys at the Anchorage Shelter Home in Colaba in Mumbai. ...
03:09 PM, Mar 21, 2011
Mumbai: British paedophiles Duncan Grant and Allan Waters surrendered, on Monday, in the Mumbai sodomy case. Grant and Waters were convicted for sexual abuse of minor boys in Mumbai. They will be taken for medical examination and after that, the duo will be taken to the sessions court. The Supreme Court had on Friday restored the conviction of paedophiles Waters and Grant on charges of sexual abuse of minor boys...
02:57 PM, Mar 21, 2011
