Pune Child Welfare Committee

• Pune cops asks 15-year-old to get back with her husband

  Officials of the Dehu Road police station have come under heavy criticism for allegedly turning down a 15-year-old's plea to register a complaint of domestic violence against her husband and in-laws. In addition, they allegedly asked the girl to go back to her husband's home, and gave her Rs 20 for medical treatment.

• 36 children disappear mysteriously from Pune orphanage

  Thirty-six children between the age of one to 18 have disappeared from the Niradhar Balsangopan Anath Ashram in Dapodi in Pune. The incident took place just two days after the Dnyanadevi-Childline social workers found all 36 children eating together in a single room on the ground floor of the two-storey structure, the construction of which is still...