The Madras High Court Bench here has called for names of female doctors in the rank of Professor or Associate Professor in Serology, Microbiology or Pathology Department of Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Government Hospital in Tiruchi for collecting blood samples of 89 inmates of an unauthorised girls’ home run by Tiruchi-based Mose Ministries. This follows allegations that some of the inmates were trafficked.
A Division Bench of Justices Nooty Ramamohana Rao and S.S. Sundar asked Additional Advocate General K. Chellapandian to submit the names by Tuesday so that the court could ask one of those doctors to lead a team of laboratory technicians to take blood samples of the inmates as well as those who had claimed to be their parents after many years and conduct DNA tests.
The observations were made after S. Jayakumar, Special Public Prosecutor for Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) cases, told the court that the inmates of the home were not cooperating in the investigation ordered by the High Court early this year to probe into allegations of trafficking and abuse levelled against the home by a public interest litigation petitioner.
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Then, another Division Bench had ordered that the CBI should make enquiries with doctors and nurses employed at hospitals in Usilampatti near here to find out the modus operandi adopted by the home for procuring the children since the home had claimed that the children were actually abandoned at the doorsteps of its branch in Usilampatti, a locality infamous for female infanticide, since 1994.
Additional A-G asked to submit list of names to the court today