UP shelter home abuse case: 24 girls rescued, 18 missing; couple arrested

UP shelter home abuse case: 24 girls rescued, 18 missing; couple arrested

The incident came to light after a girl escaped from there and informed the police. The girl alleged, "Many times white, black and red cars used to come and take the girls. When they returned in the morning, they used to cry."

It has been reported in the news agency PTI that police had rescued 24 girls from a shelter in a city in eastern Uttar Pradesh on Monday when charges of sexual abuse were brought to their notice. Managers who have been arrested on the shelter home and its superintendent of a couple have been arrested.

A total of 42 girls live in the house, 18 of them are missing. The house has been sealed. "Twenty-four girls were rescued from the shelter house yesterday, there are 42 prisoners, and eighteen prisoners are still missing," the police said on condition of anonymity. "We have sealed it.

The incident came to light after a girl escaped from there and informed the police. "Many times white, black and red cars used to take and take the girls. When they returned in the morning, they cried," the girl accuses.

"When the order was closed to stop this institution, our people went there and the director of the organization treated our team wrongfully. Today, after surviving a girl there, we had to know the reality of that place. There have been many big disclosures during the ANI. The police quoted a police officer as saying that so far twenty-four children have been rescued safely.

Women and Child Welfare Minister Rita Bahuguna Joshi said that the CBI had ordered the closure of the shelter house last year but the order was not followed. "After the CBI inspection last year, it was established that the shelter home centre was going on illegally, and a direction was issued to transfer the prisoners and shut them down, but this order was not followed, "ANI quoted Joshi as saying this.

He further said, "On August 1, an FIR was lodged illegally to stop it, because illegal acts were going on, yesterday a child was rescued, who has filed a complaint. There is an investigation going on."

Meanwhile, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday promised strong action against the perpetrators of alleged sexual exploitation of minor girls in Government-sponsored shelter homes and said that the government financed for non-governmental organizations to run a shelter house Will give "Why should we use a non-governmental organization? The government should spend money to build houses and people to rent them to take care of these children."

Kumar also jolted the opposition leaders who had opposed the candle march in Jantar Mantar in New Delhi. Addressing the media, he said, "The people sitting in opposition should look like the comments made against themselves in the past and against women in the past."