Missing child: CWC secretary summoned
The Hindu
Probe on into adoption proceedings
Kerala State Council for Child Welfare (CWC) general secretary Shiju Khan was summoned by Women and Child Development Director T.V. Anupama on Sunday afternoon in connection with the case of the alleged forced separation of a child from its mother and its adoption through the council.
The mother Anupama S. Chandran had alleged that her parents had taken away the child and handed it over to the council without her consent. She had also alleged that despite approaching the District Child Welfare Committee with a complaint on her missing child, the procedures for adoption were not halted.
The Women and Child Development Department is carrying out a departmental probe to ascertain the procedures adopted and their timeline from the time the child, thought to be Anupama’s, was received at the council. Anupama’s father P.S. Jayachandran, a CPI(M) leader, had said that the child had been left at the council’s Ammathottil electronic cradle.
As speculation over the continuation of Minister for Scheduled Tribes Welfare B. Nagendra in the Cabinet persisted, with the demand for his resignation raised by the BJP in connection with the ₹94 crore scam at the Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation, his Cabinet colleagues came to his defence on Thursday.