Chhattisgarh: WCD dept recommends closure of Ujjawala residence

The Chhattisgarh Women and Child Development (WCD) division on Friday is learnt to have really useful to the Centre that the Ujjawala residence in Bilaspur, the place a number of girls have alleged sexual abuse by the workers, be shut down.
The suggestion has been made on the premise of a report submitted by officers of the division on the state of affairs on the shelter, run by NGO Shivmangal Shikshan Samiti.
The Samiti’s president Jitendra Mourya, who has been charged with sexually abusing girls staying on the shelter and arrested on Thursday, was despatched to judicial custody on Friday.

According to sources, officers of the state WCD division carried out a “sudden examination” on the Ujjawala residence on January 18, a day after three girls escaped from the shelter residence with the assistance of the relations of considered one of them.
These girls later went to the police station and complained about sexual and bodily abuse on the shelter. The police then registered an FIR underneath bailable sections. After the ladies’s statements had been recorded in entrance of a civil choose within the district courtroom on Thursday, the police added sections of rape and assault to the FIR and nabbed Mourya.
It is learnt that the report submitted by the WCD division director and her staff says that ladies on the residence had been scared and never prepared to talk. Of the seven girls on the residence, two are learnt to have instructed the panel that they had been saved there forcefully after police took them there.
One of them, a 27-year-old lady, is learnt to have instructed the panel that she had left her residence to start out working and residing independently. She stated that after residing on the shelter residence for every week, she tried to go away and her household got here to take her residence, however the workers didn’t let her meet them.
Out of the seven girls, one every is from Assam, Odisha and Uttar Pradesh, and 4 are from Chhattisgarh.
The report, it’s learnt, states that the ladies have revealed in separate interviews that they weren’t given sufficient meals or articles of each day use like soaps, and medical provides. They had been “verbally abused, beaten and intimidated”, it famous.
The report states that the superintendent Aarti Verma and president Mourya used indecent language with the inmates. Further, the workers couldn’t clarify the allegations or the visiting hours of Mourya.
The panel that examined the house has evacuated the house out of security considerations.
“Three of the women were handed over to their families after both sides accepted repatriation. The rest have been accommodated in other centres for women,” an official stated.
So far, police haven’t questioned any of the ladies workers on the Ujjawala residence.