A non-governmental organisation (NGO) - “Samadhan” which is being selected as the service provider under the Protection of Women against Domestic Violence Act 2005 by the Uttarakhand Government was illegal and its president Renu D Singh was engaged in blackmailing and other illegal activities, advocate Vijay Anand Sharma and some women who claimed to be victims of Samadhan and its president claimed here on Sunday.
Speaking to mediapersons, Sharma alleged that the police and some people in district administration were protecting Singh and her organisation Samadhan, which was not even registered with Deputy Registrar, Firms societies and chits Dehradun.
He said the local police failed to act even after the specific instructions of National Commission for Protection of Child Rights to close the illegal society. Taking serious note of complaints of human trafficking the Commission in its letter dated June 13, 2012, had asked the Secretary Women and Child Development of Uttarakhand to immediately close the Samadhan and present all its girl inmates before the Child Welfare Committee following which the Rajpur Police station was asked to comply but it failed to act against the organisation.
One women Ganga (name changed) alleged that Singh confined her forcefully in her home and tortured her when she came to Samadhan to seek help in her marital discord. Singh was a blackmailer, she claime. Another woman Yamuna (name changed) said that Singh and her husband Sanjeev Singh forced her to file a false case of sodomy against her husband. Right to Information (RTI) activist KK Kashyap said that to prevent him from his crusade against corruption in Cantonment board one women on the abetment of Singh filed a false case of rape against him.