Thursday, 29 August 2024 | PNS | DEHRADUN
The chairperson of the State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (SCPCR) Geeta Khanna directed the district magistrate of Udham Singh Nagar Uday Raj Singh to investigate alleged sexual assault of girls by a Maulvi at a madarsa in Udham Singh Nagar and submit the probe report to the commission within a stipulated deadline.
Khanna expressed her deep anguish upon learning of the incident and promptly wrote a letter to the Udham Singh Nagar DM, instructing him to complete the investigation and submit the report to the commission by September 15.
“I have asked him to conduct an investigation based on the enrollment numbers of the students in the institution in addition to validating the necessary documents they possess among other tasks. We hope that the DM will conduct the multi-angle investigation into the matter and submit the probe report to the commission before September 15,” she said.
Khanna further flagged her concerns regarding the spurt in crime incidents involving children in the State. “Alarmed by the surge in crimes on children, particularly inside educational institutions and madarsas, I wrote to the director general of school education Bansidhar Tiwari, proposing the constitution of a committee or assigning representatives to prevent such crimes from occurring in educational institutions or madarsas. We will ensure that the perpetrators of such heinous crimes are punished adequately according to the laws of the land,” Khanna added.
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SCPCR asks health dept to show empathy for sensitive crime victims
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Taking a serious note of the a 16-year-old ISBT rape case victim being subjected to insensitivity at the medical facilities in Dehradun, the chairperson of the State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (SCPCR) Geeta Khanna has issued a directive to the director general of the state health service. She directed that a senior health officer should oversee things concerning heinous and sensitive crimes to prevent recurrence of what the rape survivor faced. She asked DG health to ensure that the victims of sensitive crimes are not treated casually and at par with normal patients.
She mentioned the fact that the survivor had first been admitted to the district hospital, but the hospital administration had transferred her to the Government Doon Medical College (GDMC), citing the severity and complexity of her case. She also flagged her anguish over the survivor being made to wait in line for a medical test for a long time at GDMC.
