Alappuzha: The Kerala State Commission for the Protection of Child Rights (KeSCPCR) has initiated steps to speed up the investigation into the child selling case that was reported by this paper on Friday.
The KeSCPCR asked the DySP, District Crime Records Bureau, to submit a report on the case that happened at Pattanakad in 2013.
Ms J. Sandhya, the district in-charge, KeSCPCR, said that a notice had been issued to the DySP, the head of special juvenile police unit in the district. seeking an immediate probe into the matter. A case will be registered after a preliminary investigation," she said.
The Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 has envisaged seven-year jail for selling or buying children.
The new-born boy's mother Suma and his father Thankaraj had sold him to a person with the support of a gynaecologist at Poochakal Mission Centre in September 2013 a few days after delivery.
