Human right activists gathered at a busy junction in Ranchi on August 21 to protest the death of two infants who were “rescued” from a Missionaries of Charity centre by a Jharkhand government department.
“The two children died of dehydration within six weeks of them being forcibly removed from the Missionaries of Charity centre,” Gopinath Ghosh, an activist associated with “Jan Awaz” (people’s voice), told Matters India on August 22. Jan Awaz, an umbrella body for various human rights groups working in the eastern Indian state, organized the protest march at Albert Ekka Chawk.
The children, just six months old, died on August 19 at a centre managed by Sahayog Village, an NGO favoured by the Child Welfare Committee (CWC), a Jharkhand government’s department, at Khunti district.
The two infants were among 22 children the CWC took away on July 6 from Nirmala Shishu Bhavan (Immaculate home for children), managed by the Mother Teresa nuns at Hinoo, a Ranchi suburb. Out of them, 12 children belonged to Khunti, some 35 km south of Ranchi.
