The Child Welfare Committee (CWC) on Friday found 18 children missing from an orphanage in Jammu and Kashmir’s Srinagar district. Following the CWC report, the Srinagar Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM) sealed the orphanage being run without registration.
श्रीनगर में अवैध अनाथालय से 18 बच्चे लापता, सील
Srinagar: The Child Welfare Committee (CWC) on Friday found 18 children missing from an orphanage in Srinagar district of Jammu and Kashmir.
Following the CWC report, the Srinagar Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM) sealed the orphanage being run without registration.
CWC chairperson Khair-ul-Nisha told media persons that the committee had visited the Al-Miskeen Orphan Trust in Nundreshi Colony, Bemina, Srinagar several times, and had requested the trust head to register the orphanage under the Juvenile Justice Act (JJA). Had asked for.
The chairman said when the committee visited the trust on Friday, they found that the trust building was locked and 18 children were missing without giving any information about their whereabouts.
He also said that the trust has been sealed by SDM Srinagar as it was being run illegally. Nisha said that until the children are produced before the committee, they will be considered missing to pursue legal remedies available to the committee.
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