The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has begun an inquiry against a private charity that operated a boarding house for underprivileged children in Kochi.
The Janaseva Sishu Bhavan has been under a cloud after it could not account for many of its lodgers, some 50 of them from other States. The District Collector took over the institution citing violation of the Juvenile Justice Act. The State put general secretary of the trust Jose Maveli on notice and asked him to produce the missing children. A verification by the Child Welfare Council unearthed the anomaly. The NCPCR issued a notice to the State Department of Women and Child Welfare. It initiated the inquiry on its own by media reports that Mr. Maveli ran the institution illegally.
