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Dhenkanal shelter home snowballs from sexual abuse to conversion
BHUBANESWAR/ DHENKANAL: As a video went viral showing religious conversion (Duban ritual) ceremony purportedly at the shelter home run by Good News India at Beltikiri in Dhenkanal district which is in the news for alleged sexual abuse of minors, the State Government denied to have any such information in this regard. “So far, no complaint has been lodged in connection with the video showing a religious conversion ceremony,” Women and Child Development Minister Prafulla Samal told mediapersons here on Tuesday
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amal is under fire over the issue of alleged sexual abuse of minors at the shelter home as the opposition parties, Congress and BJP, have taken to the streets demanding his resignation. Activists of the Odisha Pradesh Mahila Congress went in a rally here and burnt the effigy of the Minister demanding his resignation. The Minister said strong action will be taken against the guilty, if there are any allegations about religious conversion.
Allegations that shelter homes run by the organisation are being used for conversion have put the State Government in an embarrassing situation as Odisha was the first State in the country to enact the anti-conversion law, the Orissa Freedom of Religion Act, 1967. The Minister said investigation is underway to identify unregistered shelter homes. “Instructions have been issued to the Collectors to verify the registration document of the shelter homes under the Juvenile Justice (JJ) Act and initiate action against those which have not been registered.
The reports of the District Collectors are awaited,” he said. Meanwhile, simultaneous raids were conducted on the shelter homes run by the organisation across Odisha on Tuesday. A joint team comprising members of the Child Welfare Committee (CWC) and the police raided the shelter home at Chuliapasi in Udala block of Mayurbhanj district and vacated all the children. Besides, 144 inmates of the shelter home at Chhatrapur in Ganjam district were shifted to the CWC office.
According to police sources, a special court under POCSO had given consent for remand of Rehman for two days. During interrogation, he disclosed that funds came from USA for the residential child care institution. He also said their main organisation Salgadia Happy and Holy Home society was registered under 1961 Act in West Bengal. Since their office is situated in Balgadia block of West Bengal, there is no need for registration under JJ Act in Odisha, he told SP Santosh Kumar Nayak. DCWC had issued order to Sadar police in two phases to register appropriate cases against the culprits involved. Earlier, DCPO had filed a complaint at Sadar police station on violation of JJ Act
Rehman interrogated
Dhenkanal Police interrogated Good News India’s chairman Faiz Rehman and gathered information regarding sources of funds, network and other details. Rehman along with care taker Simanchal Nayak and project staff Udit Kumar Lima were arrested and sent to district jail after bail plea was rejected on Monday.
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Sexual abuse of kids in Dhenkanal home continued as adminstration looked the other way
DHENKANAL: While inmates of Good News India Dream Centre at Beltikiri were being subjected to sexual exploitation, the district administration had no inkling about the illegal shelter home which was operating in blatant violation of the Juvenile Justice Act.
Interestingly, the District Child Protection Unit (DCPU) had issued closure notice to the shelter home in 2015 for not complying with the guidelines of Juvenile Justice Act and had even repatriated the inmates to their respective districts. However, the shelter home continued its illegal operations right under the nose of the district administration. Had the officials concerned cared to carry out inspections at regular intervals, the abuse would not have taken place
Sources said the shelter home was operating at Station Bazaar till April 2015. After it was closed down, Good News India Dream Centre purchased its own land in an interior area of Beltikiri and resumed operations as the DCPU did not bother to investigate further after issuing closure notice.
DCPU legal-cum-probation officer Pradipta Kumar Sahoo said after the shelter home was closed, Good News India Dream Centre filed a petition in the Orissa High Court. Acting on the petition, the HC sent a team of lawyers to visit the home and submit a report.
In its report, the team expressed dissatisfaction over poor standards of care and infrastructure available for the inmates. It was also revealed that the shelter home was not registered under JJ Act.Though the HC observed that the education of the inmates should continue, it did not issue any direction to the district administration over the matter, Sahoo said.
The matter came to light after caretaker of the shelter home Simanchal Nayak complained to the child welfare committee on November 16 that chairman of the organisation Faiz Rehman was sexually abusing girl inmates. Earlier, Simanchal had been fired from the shelter home after allegation of sexual abuse was levelled against him by the inmates.
Meanwhile, the Special Court (POCSO) has ordered police to submit case diary in connection with Beltikiri shelter home abuse by December 7. Dhenkanal SP Santosh Kumar Nayak said the police will take Faiz and Simanchal on remand from Tuesday. The duo was arrested on Sunday.
Team formed to inspect shelter homes
Rayagada: The Rayagada administration has formed a team to inspect shelter homes and hostels across the district and submit a report to the Collector. The decision comes in wake of the sexual harassment of minor girls of shelter home run by Good News India Dream Centre in Dhenkanal. In Rayagada, the NGO was running a shelter home near Siriguda area where 76 girls were lodged. It has been operating for the last nine years. The district officials inspected the shelter home soon after the sexual harassment allegations came to fore in Dhenkanal. However, none of the girl inmates here made any such allegations. They were admitted to the shelter home by their parents or extended family members. Rayagada has at least 80 shelter homes or hostels and a majority of them are running under the supervision of Christian Missionaries.
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Odisha shelter home sexual abuse: NGO managing director taken on remand
The police on Tuesday took the managing director of an NGO on a two-day remand in connection with the alleged sexual abuse of minors at a shelter home run by the organisation in Odisha's Dhenkanal district.
A special POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) court in Dhenkanal town -- 106 km from Bhubaneswar -- on Monday allowed the remand of Fayaz Rahman, who was produced at the court after his arrest.
Police sources said Rahman would be grilled about the accusations of sexual harassment of the minor girls at the shelter home, and involvement of his NGO in alleged religious conversion.
The police will also try to ascertain Rahman's foreign links and details about permission he had obtained to set up shelter homes at 22 places in the state. He will also be asked about his source of funding, the sources said.
Rahman originally hailed from Kolkata and had later obtained US citizenship. He had himself also converted to Christianity, the police said.
He would be produced at the court at 5 pm on Wednesday on completion of the remand period, they said.
Last Friday, the police had arrested the shelter home project director, Simanchal Nayak, assistant director Udit Lima and Rahman after allegations of sexual harassment of girl inmates at the home Beltikiri village surfaced in the media.
The girls at the home had alleged that they were harassed sexually, physically and mentally by Nayak over the past two years.
Nayak, who was arrested last Saturday, h
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