Police Thursday arrested an award-winning NGO worker and her son-in-law following allegations of physical and sexual assault on inmates of a protection home for girls and c hildren in this Haryana town. Nearly 120 people, including women, girls and children, were rescued from a protection home in Haryana’s Rohtak town, the home town of Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, following a raid conducted by a team of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) Wednesday night. Police have arrested the care-taker of the protection home, Jaswanti, and also registered a case of molestation, wrongful confinement and criminal intimidation against her son-in-law Jai Bhagwan. Both have also been booked under the Immoral Trafficking Act and Child Protection Act. The raid was conducted by the NCPCR team at the Apna Ghar (child welfare house), Mahila-Aawas (women protection house) and the family consultation centre in Shri Nagar Colony here following complaints that the inmates were being harassed and physically abused.The centres are being run by NGO, Bharat Vikas Sangh. “A case under section 354 (molestation), 376 (rape), 342 (wrongful confinement), 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC),the Immoral Trafficking Act and Child Protection Act has been registered against Jaswanti and her son-in-law Jai Bhagwan. Both have been arrested,” said Rohtak district police chief Vivek Sharma. Interacting with the NCPCR team, the inmates of the protection home …
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