DCW issues notice to DUSIB over 'lapses' in shelter for mentally challenged women
The Hindu
DCW chairperson Swati Maliwal and some panel members visited the shelter home being run by NGO 'Ashray Adhikar Abhiyan'.
The Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) has issued a notice to the Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB) over "serious lapses" being found in a shelter home for mentally challenged women in Subzi Mandi area here.
A notice has also been issued to the Delhi Police over the rape of an inmate and a former staffer of the shelter home.
DCW chairperson Swati Maliwal and some members of the panel visited the shelter home being run by NGO 'Ashray Adhikar Abhiyan'.
The Commission found that the shelter housed nine mentally challenged women and girls, the DCW said.
"It was seen that no restoration efforts were being undertaken by the shelter for the women, some of whom had been living in the shelter since 2014. It was found that proper case files were not maintained and there were no file notings or official records in any of the files," it said.
The DCW also found that no steps were taken to initiate police action in the cases involving inmates.
The panel also said that proper health records of inmates were not being maintained even though all of them were prescribed medicines by the Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences (IHBAS).
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