In connection with two minor inmates of Dehradun-based Nari Niketan-the State Government- run shelter home for the distressed women - turning violent and damaging the home’s property on Thursday night, police registered FIR against the two accused in the Nehru Colony police station on Saturday. Besides, a case under sections 427/504 of IPC has been registered against the accused in the same police station.
Nehru Colony Police Station in-charge sub-inspector Rajesh Sah said that a team formed after the fracas happened was investigating the case with sub-inspector Asha Pancham leading it.
Notably, unruly scenes had been witnessed at Nari Niketan on Thursday night after two inmates-both minors- had erupted in violence, demanding to be sent to the places of their choice, prompting the department to have PAC jawans and police personnel deployed. Minors had allegedly damaged tube lights, window panes and doors. later to defuse the tension, the Minister of State (independent charge) for women welfare and child development, Rekha Arya, Uttarakhand Women Commission chairperson Sarojini Kainthura and its secretary Ramindri Mandrawal had visited the home and met the inmates. Arya had told the media persons after she had visited the home that she had asked the inmates about the problems they were facing there. But the inmates had failed to give any concrete instance of grievance, she had added.
While speaking of the fracas that had erupted at the home, the district officer in charge of the home Meena Bisht had said that they were not in a position to allow any of the inmates to leave the home unless the court orders so. Notably, the two inmates who had erupted in violence, demanding to be sent back to their chosen places, had been brought to the home following the court’s order.