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The Kerala High Court has registered a suo motu petition to inquire into the extortion of children from terrible lawsuit of home maltreatment and the breakdown of child-welfare alerts.
The petition was taken up by the Division Bench of Chief Justice Soumen Sen and Justice Syam Kumar V.M. connected Wednesday successful the aftermath of the alleged torture and execution of an 18-month-old, successful Nedumangadu successful Thiruvananthapuram. The tribunal besides directed the State to inform the steps taken successful probe of the the case.
The tribunal orally inquired astir the reasons down the “inaction” of the District Child Protection Officer contempt accusation of the alleged maltreatment from the child’s grandmother.
The tribunal had considered 2 incidents of reported kid abuses portion initiating the petition.
The contiguous trigger for the petition was the torture and decease of the one-and-a-half-year-old successful Nedumangad who sustained implicit 90 interior and outer injuries. Though the kid was brought to hospitals for bony fractures earlier his death, the systematic trauma was ne'er flagged oregon reported by treating personnel, according to the nationalist involvement litigation (PIL).
The tribunal sought to found strict, binding protocols connecting instrumentality enforcement, healthcare institutions, and kid payment officers to unafraid a mandatory-reporting model for suspected kid abuse.
