KOLLAM: The Special Investigation Team probing the suicide of two minor rape victims at an aftercare home at Injavila, Anjalumoodu, on Thursday may charge sections of ‘abetment of suicide’ against the care home superintendent and the Child Welfare Committee chairperson. “In the suicide note left behind by the girls, there are allegations against the home superintendent and the CWC chairperson. Based on that, we are verifying the allegations,” Chathannoor ACP Jawa-har Janardh, who leads the SIT, told this newspaper.
The girls were rehabilitated after they were sexually assaulted by close relatives. They were found hanging from the iron railings of the staircase leading to the first floor of the multi-storied building of the aftercare home in the wee hours of Thursday. The police recovered the suicide note from the rooms used by the girls. One of them, a Plus-Two student, was admitted to the aftercare home in January, and the other, a Class X student, had joined the home a month back. According to the inmates, one girl was under mental stress after she failed in a couple of subjects in her Plus-One examination.
The other girl was in grief after leaving her mother back home. The police is awaiting the autopsy report. The CWC had ordered to rehabilitate them at the aftercare home. The home that accommodates over 80 children lacks counselling facility. The Kerala State Commission for Protection of Child Rights had also registered a suo motu case on the incident.
