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The Chief Officer of a Children’s Aid Society denied the allegations made in a PIL by a Mankhurd resident about the mental and physical abuse of children in the Mentally Deficient Children Home run by the Society and told the Bombay HC that the allegations were intended to harm the reputation of the employees and staff of the children’s home, seeking dismissal of the PIL.
A division bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Arif S Doctor was hearing a PIL by one Abhishek Tiwari that alleged physical and mental abuse of mentally challenged children at a home in Mankhurd, observing that the “nature of the allegations shock the conscience”.
Tiwari who lives in the vicinity of the Mentally Deficient Children Home (MDCH), run by Children’s Aid Society claimed that when he visited the institution, he was shocked to see the conditions the children were subjected to, with inadequate food supply and unhygienic living conditions, among all.
The affidavit filed by Bapurao Bhavane, presently Chief Officer of Children Aid Society, who was also former Deputy Commissioner of the Women and Children Department, claimed that various enquiries had been conducted into the MDCH including by the National Child Rights Commission, the local local Collector and even a Metropolitan Magistrate on High Court’s order of 2010.
None of the enquiries could find any allegations of misconduct or ill-treatment against the children, Bhavane said.
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