Uzbek national in filing a molestation complaint against an officer of FRRO.
Uzbek national in filing a molestation complaint against an officer of FRRO. Similarly, it received a complaint from a detainee against her traffickers in Delhi who tried to force her into prostitution.
"The Commission is aghast that such serious complaints have not been reported by the beggar home to Delhi Police," Maliwal said.
She recommended that the Department should immediately, in consultation with all stakeholders, develop detailed standard operating procedures to run the home. Proper mechanisms should be instituted to ensure that allegations of cognisable offences, if any made by the detainees, should be immediately reported to the Delhi Police.
The Commission, further demanded strict action against the officers concerned for lapse of duty, citing the home lacked monitoring and was last visited by then Director Social Welfare in March 2015 which indicates apathy on the part of government.
It should be ensured that the Social Welfare Secretary and Director should conduct atleast one surprise inspection in a month to each home run by the Social Welfare department.
Also, strict monitoring systems should be institutionalised which should include installation of CCTV cameras.
It further pointed out lack of basic facilities in the home, citing examples of two women, hailing from Uzbekistan and Kenya, who had to live with only one pair of clothes for 22 days and 12 days respectively.
"The women detainees have not been provided mattresses and are made to sleep on hard beds. The Department has stated that there are no provisions for mattresses in their manual.
This is unacceptable and steps should be taken to provide mattresses to the women immediately.
"Steps should be taken to ensure that clothes if required are provided to women at the time of their entry into the Home," Maliwal said.
It also recommended appointment of adequate number of cooks and assistants, without any further delay, to end the practice of engaging mentally challenged women for cooking. It also suggested hiring of adequate number of sweepers to maintain hygiene in the home.
(This article has not been edited by DNA's editorial team and is auto-generated from an agency feed.)
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