Repatriate Bangladeshi women rescued by cops: HC tells state

The women from Bangladesh, whose case travel permit is already obtained by police, should be immediately repatriated, said Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice Nitin Jamdar while hearing a PIL.

The court also asked the state government to send home all Indian girls who had been temporarily shifted to Shradanand Ashram in Matunga for recording their statements on harassment by the staff of Mankhurd home.

As their statements had been recorded, they should be sent home, the court ruled.

Psychiatrist Haresh Shetty said a lot of frustration was there among the inmates of Makhurd home due to lack of facilities there and also because the home did not send them back to their residence, despite orders passed by the court.

Armed with a High Court directive, police had filed an FIR on December 1 on the basis of allegations by inmates of the Mankhurd rehabilitation home for rescued women about "unhygienic, humiliating and abusive" conditions there.

The court also asked Superintendent of Police Rashmi Karandikar to personally relocate 20 inmates of 'Navjeevan Sudhar Kendra' in Mankhurd to 'Shradhanand Mahila Ashram' in Matunga.

The court had also directed that inmates be examined by a government doctor, to see if they had suffered any physical abuse.

The court had earlier directed Magistrate Swati Chavan to monitor the affairs at the Mankhurd home, and asked a team of magistrates to record the statements of the women.

The High Court has turned an e-mail sent by activist Purnima Upadhyay, based on a news report about conditions at Mankhurd home, into a PIL. (MORE)