Primary duty of officers is to protect rights of children, says Children’s commission chairman

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Shashidhar Kosambe, president  of the Karnataka State Commission for the Protection of Childrens’ Rights, during an inspection astatine  the Special Police Unit for Children successful  Belagavi connected  Friday.

Shashidhar Kosambe, president of the Karnataka State Commission for the Protection of Childrens’ Rights, during an inspection astatine the Special Police Unit for Children successful Belagavi connected Friday. | Photo Credit: BADIGER P.K.

Shashidhar Kosambe, president of the Karnataka State Commission for the Protection of Children’s Rights, inspected the Special Police Unit for Children and held a gathering with officers successful Belagavi connected Friday.

He directed officers to instantly instal an accusation committee including the names, addresses and telephone numbers of the ex-officio officers and the children’s helpline fig 1098 astatine a salient spot successful the unit. He asked them to cheque the records of the Registrar of Children’s Cases and the Open House Programme regularly and to negociate them properly.

Mr. Kosambe directed the officers to study cases related to kid abduction cases, POCSO cases, and kid matrimony cases, successful a timely mode to the authorities, including the commission.

Earlier, Mr. Kosambe held a gathering of officers successful the Deputy Commissioner’s office. He asked them to realise that their superior work was to support the rights of children astatine each costs, without worrying astir procedural formalities. The officers of each the section acrophobic should enactment successful coordination towards this. There is nary request to clarify again that nary clip should beryllium wasted successful registering immoderate cases related to children oregon children successful struggle with law, and probe should statesman immediately. All superior cases similar abduction, POCSO, kid marriage, harassment oregon violence, kid labour and others should beryllium handled connected priority.

“It is mandatory for immoderate person, genitor oregon schoolhouse unit who has accusation astir intersexual maltreatment against children to study it to the constabulary station. It is mandatory to registry a POCSO case, and if determination is immoderate delay, enactment tin beryllium taken against those responsible. The POCSO cases should beryllium charge-sheeted successful 120 days,” helium said.

He asked Vijay Kumar H., Additional DC, to contented notices to officers astir the hold successful 5 specified cases. He expressed interest astir hold successful probe into kid missing cases and children dying successful roadworthy accidents.

“All schools and hostels successful the territory should supply a harmless situation for children by providing extortion from immoderate benignant of violence, maltreatment and exploitation. A kid rights extortion committee should beryllium formed successful each schoolhouse and hostel. Complaint boxes should beryllium installed mandatorily. They should beryllium checked regularly and enactment should beryllium taken. Personal accusation of abused children and complaints astir them should beryllium kept confidential. Awareness should beryllium created against kid trafficking, kid labour and kid marriage,” helium said.

He directed officers should enactment proactively to destruct maternal mortality, babe mortality and malnutrition successful the district.

Published - February 13, 2026 10:50 p.m. IST

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