Jharkhand Shelter Home

Two more minor girls went missing after children from a shelter home in East Singhbhum district, were shifted to another place late Friday evening by the administration after allegations of sexual assaults there surfaced.

A probe has been ordered into alleged sexual assault and torture of minor girls at a state-registered NGO while 40 minor children from the home are being shifted to another home, a top official said on Thursday.

Among 34 tribal children who were allegedly trafficked from Jharkhand to an illegal shelter home in Punjab, 24 children have been traced, the police said today. Two persons have been arrested as part of the case.

Three "underweight" children of a Jharkhand government sponsored shelter home have died allegedly of malnutrition last week, an official said today.

The Jharkhand government will cancel the licence of seven children's homes run by Missionaries of Charity in Ranchi, an official said today.

After reports of child trafficking from the Ranchi branch of Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity emerged last month, Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das had directed the State Commission for Protection of Child Rights to investigate all such centres and shelter homes by August 15.

Child care homes run by Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity across the country must be inspected immediately, the government instructed all states. This comes after recent cases of babies were allegedly sold for adoptions at a Missionaries of Charity shelter home in Jharkhand.

Days after the Roman Catholic Church backed the nun at the Missionaries of Charity shelter home in Ranchi who has been arrested for selling four babies, the police put out a video of the nun confessing to her role in the racket. In this short clip, the nun says three babies had been had been sold but the fourth infant, was given away for adoption f...

Police have rescued one more child, allegedly sold by a Ranchi shelter home run by Mother Teresa-founded Missionaries of Charity, from Jharkhand's Simdega district, taking the total number of rescued children to three.

Amid reports of child trafficking from the Ranchi branch of Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity, or MoC, in Jharkhand, Chief Minister Raghubar Das has directed the State Commission for Protection of Child Rights to investigate all such centres and shelter homes by August 15.

Two more minor girls went missing after children from a shelter home in East Singhbhum district, were shifted to another place late Friday evening by the administration after allegations of sexual assaults there surfaced.

A probe has been ordered into alleged sexual assault and torture of minor girls at a state-registered NGO while 40 minor children from the home are being shifted to another home, a top official said on Thursday.

Among 34 tribal children who were allegedly trafficked from Jharkhand to an illegal shelter home in Punjab, 24 children have been traced, the police said today. Two persons have been arrested as part of the case.

Three "underweight" children of a Jharkhand government sponsored shelter home have died allegedly of malnutrition last week, an official said today.

The Jharkhand government will cancel the licence of seven children's homes run by Missionaries of Charity in Ranchi, an official said today.

After reports of child trafficking from the Ranchi branch of Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity emerged last month, Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das had directed the State Commission for Protection of Child Rights to investigate all such centres and shelter homes by August 15.

Child care homes run by Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity across the country must be inspected immediately, the government instructed all states. This comes after recent cases of babies were allegedly sold for adoptions at a Missionaries of Charity shelter home in Jharkhand.

Days after the Roman Catholic Church backed the nun at the Missionaries of Charity shelter home in Ranchi who has been arrested for selling four babies, the police put out a video of the nun confessing to her role in the racket. In this short clip, the nun says three babies had been had been sold but the fourth infant, was given away for adoption f...

Police have rescued one more child, allegedly sold by a Ranchi shelter home run by Mother Teresa-founded Missionaries of Charity, from Jharkhand's Simdega district, taking the total number of rescued children to three.

Amid reports of child trafficking from the Ranchi branch of Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity, or MoC, in Jharkhand, Chief Minister Raghubar Das has directed the State Commission for Protection of Child Rights to investigate all such centres and shelter homes by August 15.