By Matters India Reporter Sagar, Jan 7, 2022: The Madhya Pradesh High Court has stayed the forcible shifting of orphans from St. Francis Orphanage in Sagar, a town in the central Indian state. “Shifting of 44 orphan children from St. Francis orphanage was stopped after the Jabalpur bench of MadhyaContinue Reading
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CHENNAI: Dhanalakshmi was 14 and pregnant when she was rescued from a children’s home in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. She had been entrusted in the care of the unregistered institution by her mother, a ragpicker who could no longer afford another mouth to feed. But instead ofContinue Reading
Ranchi: A 14-year-old girl from a remote village in Gumla, around 200km from capital Ranchi, has openly defied her parents’ diktat to marry her off on February 4, by proactively contacting the police, district legal services authority and child welfare committee to say that she wanted to study. Mamta KumariContinue Reading
