Senior Jharkhand police officer demands CBI probe in child trafficking case

— By | Jul 12, 2018 09:48 am

An Indian nun (C) with Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity hides her face as she sits outside a court under police protection before a hearing on child trafficking charges in Ranchi, in India's eastern Jharkhand state, on July 5, 2018. A nun and a staff member at Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity in eastern India were arrested July 5 for allegedly selling babies born to unwed mothers, police said. / AFP PHOTO

Ranchi (Jharkhand): Additional Director General of Police (ADGP)( Law and Order) of Jharkhand, RK Mallik on Wednesday requested for a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)-led probe in the child trafficking case.

“I have requested the state government for a CBI inquiry in this issue and also that all accounts of Missionaries of Charity and five of its associate organisations should be seized. We have found the records of 121 children sold by them.”

Two nuns of Missionaries of Charity were arrested on July 5 on charges of trafficking under-age tribal girls. Members of the Child Welfare Committee (CWC), Ranchi and the police interrogated the nuns at the premises of Missionaries of Charity, “Nirmal Hriday” on July 4, following which an FIR was lodged on grounds of trafficking under-age tribal girls.

The Child Welfare Committee of the UNICEF, who had been constantly monitoring the situation at the Missionaries of Charity is probing the matter.