Patna: Another incident of abuse at a short stay home in the Bihar state capital has come to light. On Monday, the police registered a case against another Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) running in Patliputra locality of Patna for alleged brutal torture of girl lodged there.
In the case registered by a government official Bharti Priyambada, the NGO officials have been charged with shabbily treating, assaulting and hurling abuses at the girls at the short stay home located in the posh colony Patna. The care home was said to be running since 2014.
“The environment at the care home was not fit for females. There was no proper arrangement for food for the inmates,” says the complaint petition filed with the Patliputra police station.
As per the report, the NGO was registered at Sangrampur village under Saraiya police station in Saran district. but was operating the care home in Patna. Reports said the care home had the capacity to house 50 women.
Sexual abuse of inmates at care homes remains a matter of serious concern in Bihar. The Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), a multi-campus public funded research university in Mumbai, which recently carried out social audit of 110 welfare institutions in Bihar, has reported gross sexual abuse of inmates in at least 15 shelter homes running across the state.
The TISS report has especially raised questions over the prevailing state of affairs at short stay homes for both girls and boys running at Muzaffarpur, Patna, Munger, Gaya, Araria and Kaimur districts.
“All of them were found to be running in violation of the respective schemes and the essence of the Juvenile Justice Act. The inmates’ right to life was in question in certain institutions,” the TISS said in its report.
