Taking serious note of alleged negligence on the part of the officials of Government-run juvenile home and Government juvenine girls’ home where two inmates had died and a girl child got physically crippled, the Uttarakhand social welfare Minister Yashpal Arya inspected the juvenile home and met the children there on Tuesday.
He talked to the inmates and inquired about their condition and facilities provided to them by the department staffs. Arya met 27 inmates of juvenile home and 19 inmates of juvenile girls’ home on the day. later, he said that it was a matter of concern for all of them. “Such incidents should not have occurred,” he said, adding that the complaints raised regarding negligence of juvenile home staffs would be looked into seriously and a transparent inquiry would be conducted. Notably, based on the report of then additional secretary over negligence of juvenile home staffs, FIR had been lodged against the former pharmacist Hari Krishan Semwal and caretakers- Manda, Shanti, Deepa, Sushila, Sarojini and Karan- under section 75 of juvenile justice Act 2015 at Nehru Colony police station on late Saturday evening.
Sources revealed that in the last two years one female and another male had died allegedly due to staferrs’ negligence. Furthermore, a child had become physically crippled due to lack of medical treatment on time.
In 2014, a two -year-old girl had been scalded as hot water from a geyser fell on her. As per the report, the girl, injured on the first day of the month, had been given medicine on the sixth day while she had been admitted in the hospital on the 15th day of the month. The condition of the girl deteriorating, the hospital doctor had asked the staffers to have the girl medically checked up regularly, which the staffers had not done, resulting in the permanent damage to one of her legs.
Mention worthy, on the direction of sate director general of police Anil K Raturi, Special Investigation Team (SIT) has been fomred to conduct an inquiry into this issue.
Dehradun deputy suprintendent of police Jaya Baloni has been made the in-charge of SIT while Kumari Neelam, inspector of State women secruity branch, police headquarters, has been appointed as the other member of SIT.