Child Development Centres: Petition seeks HC directive to probe violation of rights

A Supreme Court lawyer yesterday submitted a writ petition before the High Court seeking its directive on the government to form a high powered inquiry committee to probe the violation of fundamental rights of the children in the three child development centres of the country.

Lawyer Manoj Kumar Bhowmick, also a rights activists, placed the petition before the HC bench of Justice Md Mozibur Rahman Miah and Justice Mohi Uddin Shamim praying to this court to issue a rule asking the authorities concerned of the government why the abusive behaviour and negligence to the children in the centres should not be declared illegal and why appropriate action should not be taken against unscrupulous officials.

Early last week, Bhowmik filed the petition with the HC following a report published on The Daily Star on September 29 under the headline, "No better than a jail", describing the violation of fundamental rights of children and their miserable condition in the child development centres.

He said in the petition that the condition of the children and violation of their fundamental rights is heart-wrenching.