Madurai Collector forms special team to inspect all homes

Action follows complaint of illegal adoption of 2 children from a home

Madurai District Collector, S. Aneesh Sekhar, has formed a special team comprising officials from the Departments of Revenue, Social Welfare and District Child Protection Officer to inspect all homes in the district. The direction comes in the wake of a complaint of child missing at a home in the city. Investigation revealed that the director of the home, Sivakumar, had sold a one-year-old male baby after taking him away from the home. He had told the baby's mother that the child had died due to COVID-19 and was buried in a corporation burial site.