Members of the Child Welfare Committee (CWC) on Wednesday began investigations into how two inmates went away from the lutheran Mahila Samiti, an orphanage located at Patalipankha in Kendrapada district, on Tuesday.
According to sources, the two inmates, Subrat Mandal and Himansu Sekhar Das of Class 8, went to a hotel at Duhuri and requested the hotel staffs to give them work.
When asked, they gave their identities and said they left the orphanage as they were being served substandard and inadequate food. later, some locals brought the matter to the notice of the Child Welfare Protection Committee who rescued the two inmates from the spot and handed over them to the Samiti. Kendrapada DSWO Ahalya Dhal said the CWC is investigating into the matter and the report is awaited. Meanwhile, Odisha State Commission for Protection of Child Rights Chairperson Sruti Mohapatra, who was on a two-day visit to the district, rushed to the orphanage to conduct an inquiry.