Indore: Forced to inhale the smoke of burning red chilli

Indore: Young girls from an “ornatto” recount a history of alleged horrific forms of abuse and punishment, including branding with hot rods, having their mouths gagged and being forced to inhale the smoke of burnt red chillies, for which local The administration was forced to do so. The facilities were sold and the police lodged an FIR against five women. Shocking stories told by recluses before the Child Welfare Committee (CWC) When an FIR (First Information Report) was filed against five women associated with the center for alleged ill-treatment of children in the name of punishment, an official Told the police. Said on Friday. The installation, described by officials as “orphaned”, was sold by the local administration. However, the NGO managing the children’s center said it was dealing with a hostel, not an orphanage, and filed a petition for habeas corpus before the Superior Tribunal of Madhya Pradesh challenging the administration’s action. of. It also rejected all the allegations mentioned in the FIR registered on the basis of a complaint filed by the CWC local. Officials said the administration on January 12 sold the Vatsalyapuram facility, located in the Vijayanagara area, to an illegal operation and transferred the girls aged between four and 14 years to the state child protection home or some other institution. He said the recluses told the Child Welfare Committee (CWC) that they were tortured in the facilities as punishment. In the FIR lodged on the night of January 17, it is said that the four-year-old girl was beaten, made to wear dry clothes, locked in the bathroom for several hours and without food for two days. The FIR also alleged that the children were made to sit face down and were forced to inhale the smoke of red chilli kept in a hot pan below. Two children were branded with hot tongs at the hands of a boy and a girl was taken into an oven after being stripped naked in front of other children and warned that she would die, the official said, citing the document. On the other hand, Jain Welfare Society, the NGO managing the centre, has filed a habeas corpus petition in the Indore High Court. “Vatsalayapuram is not an orphanage but an independent hostel where children from economically weaker families are taken care of at an annual fee of just Rs 5,” Vibhor Khandelwal, lawyer for the private foundation, told PTI. Khandelwal claimed that the administration had sold Vatsalyapuram “unauthorisedly” and that it had not followed norms and proper legal procedure to shift the recluses to other institutions. As stated, the habeas corpus petition seeks handing over of the children to the administration of the shelter or their parents. A resource of habeas corpus which is used to request the release of a person from illegal detention or imprisonment. Khandelwal also raised questions on the allegations written in the FIR. “The Sinco women, belonging to the orphan, have been named in the FIR registered under relevant provisions of the Indian Penal Code and the Juvenile Justice Act (Questionnaire and Protection of Children),” Vijay Nagar police commissionerate sub-inspector said. , Fame. Tomar. He said that the investigation into these allegations is still in the initial stage. “The children rescued from orphanhood are natives of Rajasthan and Gujarat,” said Pallavi Porwal, chairperson of Indore-based Child Welfare Committee (CWC). “We have written to the child welfare committees of these states asking them to determine the socio-economic environment of these children and give us an information so that they can be rehabilitated,” Porwal said.