HC posts plea for CBI probe for hearing tomorrow

The Madras High Court has posted for hearing tomorrow a petition seeking a direction for a CBI probe into the activities of an 'unregistered' orphanage at Tiruchirappalli run by a pastor and his wife, a German national.
The petitioner A.Narayanan, Director of 'Change India', an NGO working for the rights of the children, said CBI should also investigate the modus operandi and motive of the pastor in setting up the "illegal" orphanage.
CBI should probe various issues including whether the 89 children had been brought with the consent of the parents or procured through brokers.
The pastor Gideon Jacob and his wife, Ute Jacob, a German national, were running the orphanage. The children were doing all the chores including cooking, the petitioner alleged.

An intern of the NGO, while doing his Masters in Social Work (MSW) course, did a study of the orphanage and submitted the report to the organisation, the petitioner said.
A division bench of the Court's Madurai bench, Justice P.R.Sivakumar and Justice V S Ravi, posted the case for hearing tomorrow.