To protest against the recent sexual assault on
mentally retarded girls, angry physically challenged children and their
parents under the banner of Jammu and Kashmir Association of Parents of
Hearing Handicapped (APHH), today staged a massive protest demonstration
at Dogra Chowk.
The deaf and dumb children and their parents took out a protest rally which began from Samaj Kalyan Kendra at Shahidi Chowk and passed through Residency Road and before culminating at the Press Club they blocked traffic movement for few minutes at Dogra Chowk to show their resentment against the district administration for not taking severe action against the culprits of sexual assault on mentally retarded minor girls at Home for Mentally Retarded Inner Wheel, Channi Rama. They also sought the constitution of a high level committee to conduct a probe in this connection.
The children also staged a protest demonstration in front of Press Club, carrying placards and raising slogans against the district administration for taking the matter non-seriously. They were demanding a swift trial of the accused besides new laws with stringent punishment for those convicted of sexual assault on mentally retarded minor girls.
“The state government, with the help of opposition leaders should make stringent laws and there should be death sentence for such a heinous crime and justice should be speedy. Immediate justice on such issues reinforces the faith of people in our legal system,” said Sanjay Gupta while addressing the reporters.
“This issue has been come up in Jammu and ironically that too from an NGO which is meant to serve and protect those who are in need and incapable of doing things for themselves. But in this inhuman activity these innocent girls were assaulted, he maintained. He also reiterated that it is the prime responsibility of the civil society and the government to safeguard and provide full protection to the mentally retarded and other kind of handicapped persons of the society.
The leaders further demanded an in-depth enquiry against the NGO working since 1979 and demanded that the registration of the NGO, its funding and all other aspects be probed. They also demanded canceling the registration of all such NGOs whose antecedents are doubtful, fake and nonexistent. These fake NGOs are involved in exploitation and plunder of the government funds and are a blot on the other existing NGOs actually working for the welfare of society, they alleged.
Source : Kashmir Times , 9th September 2013
The deaf and dumb children and their parents took out a protest rally which began from Samaj Kalyan Kendra at Shahidi Chowk and passed through Residency Road and before culminating at the Press Club they blocked traffic movement for few minutes at Dogra Chowk to show their resentment against the district administration for not taking severe action against the culprits of sexual assault on mentally retarded minor girls at Home for Mentally Retarded Inner Wheel, Channi Rama. They also sought the constitution of a high level committee to conduct a probe in this connection.
The children also staged a protest demonstration in front of Press Club, carrying placards and raising slogans against the district administration for taking the matter non-seriously. They were demanding a swift trial of the accused besides new laws with stringent punishment for those convicted of sexual assault on mentally retarded minor girls.
“The state government, with the help of opposition leaders should make stringent laws and there should be death sentence for such a heinous crime and justice should be speedy. Immediate justice on such issues reinforces the faith of people in our legal system,” said Sanjay Gupta while addressing the reporters.
“This issue has been come up in Jammu and ironically that too from an NGO which is meant to serve and protect those who are in need and incapable of doing things for themselves. But in this inhuman activity these innocent girls were assaulted, he maintained. He also reiterated that it is the prime responsibility of the civil society and the government to safeguard and provide full protection to the mentally retarded and other kind of handicapped persons of the society.
The leaders further demanded an in-depth enquiry against the NGO working since 1979 and demanded that the registration of the NGO, its funding and all other aspects be probed. They also demanded canceling the registration of all such NGOs whose antecedents are doubtful, fake and nonexistent. These fake NGOs are involved in exploitation and plunder of the government funds and are a blot on the other existing NGOs actually working for the welfare of society, they alleged.
Source : Kashmir Times , 9th September 2013
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