The Madras High Court Bench here has sought details from the Centre on the number of child abuse cases booked across the country in the recent years and steps taken by it to prevent abuse of children from poor families by foreign nationals.
Justice N. Kirubakaran suo motu impleaded the Union Ministry of Women and Child Development as one of the parties to a petition related to child abuse and directed Assistant Solicitor General G.R. Swaminathan to obtain details from the Ministry within two weeks.
The order was passed on a petition filed by J. Robinson (72), a British national, to quash a case registered against him by the police in Valliyoor in Tirunelveli district on charges of sexually exploiting a 15-year-old boy studying Class IX.
