NEW DELHI, Jan 3: The NHRC has issued a notice to the Leh civil administration and its police authorities over charges that a minor Ladakhi girl belonging to a tribal Buddhist community who had gone missing from her home late December, was subsequently “found in Srinagar with a Muslim boy”.
Presently, the girl is under the supervision of a Child Welfare Committee and is suffering from “mental trauma,” the proceedings dated January 2 said. The complainant is Sagar Bhante, from Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh.
A bench of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), presided by its member Priyank Kanoongo, has taken cognisance under section 12 of the Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993.
The Registry is directed to issue a notice to the DC, Leh and the SSP/DIG, Leh, Ladakh, with directions to get the allegations made in the complaint inquired into and to submit an action taken report within seven days for perusal of the Commission,” it adds.
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