Six women go lacking from Kerala authorities’s youngsters’s dwelling in Kozhikode

By Express News Service

KOZHIKODE: Six women have gone lacking from the state authorities’s Children’s Home for Girls at Vellimadukunnu, Kozhikode. The group went lacking on Wednesday night.

“Police have filed a man missing case and started the investigation based on the complaint by the Children’s Home superintendent. According to the complaint, five Kozhikode-based girls and one Kannur native girl, went missing after the Republic Day celebrations at the institution auditorium in the evening. The children were present for lunch and at the Republic Day function followed in the afternoon. The girls belong to the age group of 14 to 16. Police are checking CCTV footages,” mentioned Chandramohan P, SHO, Chevayur police station.

Meanwhile, the state little one rights fee has registered a suo moto case within the incident. The fee member B Babitha will go to the kids’s dwelling as a part of the inquiry. The district police chief was directed to accentuate the investigation and submit a report. The fee additionally directed the district little one safety officer and the superintendent of kids’s dwelling to submit a direct report on the incident.

According to preliminary findings, the kids had escaped from the house. Knowing that there can be a safety guard close to the doorway, they’d reportedly jumped over the aspect wall utilizing a ladder and escaped.

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The lacking women had been admitted within the youngsters’s dwelling on the directions of the district Child Welfare Committee.

The Children’s Home for Girls is situated in a big compound that features the Nirbhaya Shelter, authorities particular houses, and quite a few different authorities rehabilitation centres and ladies and little one growth division houses. But there isn’t any separate compound wall or CCTV digital camera or safety guard for every establishment right here.

“There is a security guard in the front near the main compound gate. The institution does not have a separate guard,” mentioned Lincy AK, the district little one safety officer, Kozhikode.

The Children’s Home for Girls can accommodate greater than 100 youngsters. The current energy is 29. Many employees posts within the establishment are vacant.