The State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (SCPCR) has pulled up the Women Development and Child Welfare (WD&CW) Department officers for tonsuring the inmates of Bala Sadan (Government Children’s Home), without the doctors advice.
The Commission conducted an inquiry on Wednesday into the alleged tonsuring of nine children by the staff in the children’s home on July 7 and 8.
SCPCR Chairman, K. Appa Rao, members B. Padmavathi, G. Seetaram and J. Rajendra Prasad, expressed anger over the “inhuman act” and questioned on why the children, most of them Yanadi tribes, were tonsured without the doctor’s advice.
