The government has ordered a Criminal Investigation Department (CID) inquiry into the “suspicious death” of Reshma, who had been sent for skill training to a non-governmental organisation from the State-run women’s home.
An inquiry has also been ordered into the “omissions and commissions” of the head of the NGO, Rukhsana Hassan of the New Dawn Rehabilitation Trust, who has been receiving funds from the Karnataka State Wakf Foundation for Women’s Development to run a home for destitute women, said Minister of State for Women and Child Development Umashree, in a written reply.
Officials not informedThe NGO had taken in 15 women from the women’s home for a period of six months for training in 2010, but they did not return in time to the home. The officials were not given any information about their whereabouts. Ms. Reshma, who was among the 15 women, had died within two days of being sent to the NGO “under suspicious circumstances”.
The complaint filed in this regard also made a reference to a woman by the name of Salma, who had gone missing. Ms. Umashree said, in her reply, that Ms. Salma was not an inmate of the women’s home and there was “no information” on whether she had been “illegally” sent to work at the residence of the former chairperson of Karnataka State Minorities Commission, Anwar Manippadi.
Also, there was no information on whether Ms. Reshma had been sent to the house of Yousuf Parodi, a former forest official, to work as domestic help, she said.
The government officials who were involved in the case were suspended for dereliction of duty and action was being initiated against them, said Ms. Umashree.
The question was raised by Congress MLC V.S. Ugrappa and others under Rule 72 in the Legislative Council on Wednesday.
