NHRC notices to Chhattisgarh DM, SP

NHRC has taken stern view of a case involving alleged outrage of modesty of two inmates at a tribal girls hostel in Chhattisgarh's Jashpur district by one of the relatives of its superintendent.
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) issued notices to the District Magistrate and the Superintendent of Police of Jashpur seeking their reports within two weeks.
The reports were issued following suo-motu cognisance of a media report that said that the modesty of the two class V girls was outraged "when their clothes were removed by a relative of the Superintendent of Adiwasi Kanya Hostel".
"When a friend of the victim students protested against this, she was also ill-treated and beaten. The girls got so terrorised by this act that they left the hostel. They were studying in fifth class," NHRC said.

According to the report, the incident led to protests by villagers alleging that the husband of the hostel superintendent also stays with her in its premises and their relatives had been harassing the girl students.
"The issue of hostel superintendent's husband staying in the girls hostel was brought to the notice of the District Collector in 2013 but no action was taken," it said.