Violation of Children’s Fundamental Rights: Legal notice seeks probe into 3 child dev centres

A Supreme Court lawyer yesterday sent a legal notice to the government, requesting it to form a high-powered inquiry committee in three days to probe the violation of fundamental rights of the children in the three Child Development Centres of the country, meant for underage convicts of crimes.

Lawyer Manoj Kumar Bhowmick, also a rights activist, served the legal notice to the social welfare secretary and director general of the department of social services following a report published on The Daily Star on September 29 headlined "No better than a jail".

The report narrated violations of fundamental rights of children and their miserable condition at the child development centres.

In the legal notice, the lawyer said his heart bled at the condition of the children and violation of their rights.

Manoj Bhowmick told The Daily Star that he will move a writ petition before the High Court seeking necessary directives if the respondents do not act in line with the requirements of the legal notice.