Renuka Chowdhury meets Home Minister on Nithari killings

New Delhi, Jan 5 (UNI) Women and Child Development Minister Renuka Chowdhury today met Home Minister Shivraj Patil to discuss the plight of children killed in the Nithari village of NOIDA in Uttar Pradesh.

The minister has also written to all the Chief Secretaries of states and union territories to give special attention to the complaints of missing children in their states.

Ms Chowdhury also held a meeting with the high level committee constituted by the Centre to investigate into the sexual abuse and killings of the children in Nithari. The meeting was attended by Committee chairperson and Joint Secretary in the Ministry Manjula Krishnan. The minister took stock of the situation and asked the Committee to find within 15 days, measures taken by the local administration, especially the police, to locate the missing children and unite them with their families.

The committee would also assess the level of cooperation and assistance provided by the local administration, especially by the police to the community, affected parents and families. It would also go into the modus operandi and the motive of the accused persons into these activities.

Joint Secretary (Police) Home Ministry V N Gaur, Secretary with UP government's Department of Women and Child Development Balvinder Kumar and Women and Child Development Ministry Director J S Kochher are among its members.

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