Rohtak kids' grandparents seeking moving to NHRC

In Rohtak, the family of two children whose mother was gangraped and committed suicide and whose father is now in jail for that, are now fighting for their custody.

The grandparents of Himanshu and Nishita have petitioned NHRC asking them to intervene because police put them in an orphanage. 

The family will consider court option after getting a reply from NHRC.

But they are adamant that they will not sign any bond as asked by the administration.

The family says they will not take out kids on the street to protest again but they object two articles mentioned in the undertaking.

Himanshu and Nishita have been living with their grandparents out in the open outside Rohtak Court, campaigning to free their father, who also attempted suicide with his wife.

After NDTV highlighted their story, local officials moved them into an orphanage. They claimed this was for the children's safety, but the gesture suggests that the administration was left embarrassed by the heart-wrenching image of two young children, crouched in a make-shift tent, clutching placards that ask for their father's freedom.

Three years ago, their mother was gang-raped in a moving car. Their father and mother then allegedly drank poison. Their mother died, and though their father survived, officials arrested him for poisoning his wife.