Indore, a 16-year-old boy from an Indore-based ashram, where six children died recently, has gone missing, prompting the management to file a complaint alleging that the minor was mentally weak and was kidnapped by an unidentified person, the police reported. he said Wednesday.
Six children lost their lives at the NGO-operated Shri Yugpurush Dham Bal Ashram in Malharganj area of Indore within a span of a few days starting June 29. The deaths raised concerns about mismanagement, over-admissions and a suspected cholera outbreak at the shelter for special children.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (ACP) Ashish Patel said that after the health of children deteriorated following the cholera outbreak at Shri Yugpurush Dham Bal Ashram, some children were sent to Akhand Parmanand Ashram located in Khandwa Naka area. from the city on July 6 as a precautionary measure.
“An FIR was registered at Tejaji Nagar police station on the basis of a complaint lodged by the management of Shri Yugpurush Dham Bal Ashram that one of the boys, Anand (16), was lured by an unidentified miscreant and kidnapped July 8th". he said.
The ACP said the police did not find the boy in the July 8 footage captured by CCTV cameras installed in and around the venue. "We are also examining CCTV footage from before then," he added.
According to the ashram management, the missing boy is mentally weak and the Harda Child Welfare Committee sent him to Indore in January, Patel said.
"All aspects related to the missing minor case are being investigated," officials said.
Four children died at the ashram between July 1 and 2 after suffering from cholera, while one of the children who died at the institute on June 30 was claimed to have died due to a brain seizure, officials said.
Another inmate of the ashram died during the intervening night of June 29 and 30, but the ashram management did not inform the administration about the boy's death and his body was handed over to his relatives and buried in a local crematorium. He said. .
The ashram management claimed that the boy died of epilepsy, but this could not be confirmed, officials said.
He said the investigation by a high-level committee constituted by the administration also revealed overcrowding of children in the ashram, medical records of children not being maintained properly and other irregularities in the maintenance of the institution.
Six children lost their lives at the NGO-operated Shri Yugpurush Dham Bal Ashram in Malharganj area of Indore within a span of a few days starting June 29. The deaths raised concerns about mismanagement, over-admissions and a suspected cholera outbreak at the shelter for special children.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (ACP) Ashish Patel said that after the health of children deteriorated following the cholera outbreak at Shri Yugpurush Dham Bal Ashram, some children were sent to Akhand Parmanand Ashram located in Khandwa Naka area. from the city on July 6 as a precautionary measure.
“An FIR was registered at Tejaji Nagar police station on the basis of a complaint lodged by the management of Shri Yugpurush Dham Bal Ashram that one of the boys, Anand (16), was lured by an unidentified miscreant and kidnapped July 8th". he said.
The ACP said the police did not find the boy in the July 8 footage captured by CCTV cameras installed in and around the venue. "We are also examining CCTV footage from before then," he added.
According to the ashram management, the missing boy is mentally weak and the Harda Child Welfare Committee sent him to Indore in January, Patel said.
"All aspects related to the missing minor case are being investigated," officials said.
Four children died at the ashram between July 1 and 2 after suffering from cholera, while one of the children who died at the institute on June 30 was claimed to have died due to a brain seizure, officials said.
Another inmate of the ashram died during the intervening night of June 29 and 30, but the ashram management did not inform the administration about the boy's death and his body was handed over to his relatives and buried in a local crematorium. He said. .
The ashram management claimed that the boy died of epilepsy, but this could not be confirmed, officials said.
He said the investigation by a high-level committee constituted by the administration also revealed overcrowding of children in the ashram, medical records of children not being maintained properly and other irregularities in the maintenance of the institution.