PANCHGANI, DEC 30: Childline, the semi-government organisation that looks into child issues demanded today that the sensational Ruby Singh case, which was unearthed in May this year be transferred to the CBI instead of the CB CID where it was to be transferred to earlier this month.Childline activists said today that their demand will be based on an informal information shared with them that Inspector General Harbhajan Singh who was to be transferred earlier this month. He had said that the case, which was earlier with the Varanasi police will be transferred to the CB CID (the investigation wing of the state police).Apart from this, one of the activists also alleged that the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) regarded as the apex human rights body in the country was seemingly uninterested in the case. "We do not know why the NHRC is not taking adequate action. We had expected a lot more from them," pointed out Rajiv Kumarsingh who is one of the city co-ordinators for the Varanasi wing of Childline.The statements were made at the National Conference on Human Rights which is currently underway at Panchgani. Surprisingly, none of the officials from the NHRC were present to comment on the issue. ``According to me, there are hardly two persons from the NHRC,'' said one of the volunteers at the conference.Explaining their complaints with the NHRC, Singh said, ``though the National Women's Commission (NWC) has also recommended that the case be transferred to the CBI, the NHRC has not taken any proactive steps so far. All that they say about the case is that we are looking into the matter and will try to do something about it.''The Ruby Singh case which first unearthed on May 24 this year when Childline had received a distress call from 13-year-old Ruby Singh about her being repeatedly molested, assumed gargantuan proportions with the arrest of around five government officials later. The prime accused, 25-year old Vipul Pathak who was a member of the member of the youth wing of the local BJP was also one of the three members selected to be a member of the Juvenile Welfare Board in the state.He along with two others - Anand Mishra and Shahid Parvez - surrendered one after the other nearly four months after May. They were all arrested after being accused of repeatedly molesting Ruby and other inmates housed in a government women protective home called Nari Niketan in Shivpur at Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh.Later, Childline activists will also demand that the selection procedures for a seat in the Juvenile Welfare Board be changed and that persons without a proper background should not be admitted into the board.
