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DC Impact: KSHRC writes to Kalaburagi IG over prevailing Devadasi system

The KSHRC has asked Kalaburagi Deputy Commissioner and IGP to submit a detailed report on the issue within 6 weeks.

Bengaluru: The Karnataka State Human Rights Commission (KSHRC) has taken cognisance of a report published in Deccan Chronicle on July 16 about the prevailing practice of abhorrent Devadasi system at Mavinsoor village in Chittapur taluk of Kalaburagi district.

The KSHRC has written to the Inspector General of Police (North-Eastern Range) and the Deputy Commissioner, Kalaburagi, to submit a detailed report on the issue within six weeks.

DC, following the arrest of the 10-year-old girl’s parents who forced her into becoming Devadasi and the priest a local temple who performed all the rituals, had reported about the inaction of the committee constituted by the Karnataka State Children Rights Protection Committee to study the problem and submit a report.

DC had reported that although it’s almost a month since the case was reported, the committee has not even visited this village, let alone the others where newly-initiated Devadasis are said to be living.

“In parts of Kalaburagi and in many other districts across Karnataka, hundreds of prepubescent girls like the ten-year-old from Mavinsoor are at risk, with the administration clueless on how to counter this pervasive practice. Caught in the grind of poverty and ignorance, it’s a cult that has so many of the poor and the ignorant in their clutches,” DC had reported.

( Source : Deccan Chronicle. )
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