The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Wednesday issued a notice to authorities in Odisha over the alleged rape and molestation of four minor girls in an orphanage last month in the state, an official said Wednesday.
Acting on a media report, the NHRC has asked the collector and superintendent of police of Sambalpur district to submit reports on the incident within four weeks, a commission official said.
The commission observed that the contents of the media report, if true, raise a serious issue of violation of human rights of inmates of the orphanage.
Citing the media report, the NHRC said that two minor girls were raped and two others were molested by the owner of an orphanage on the outskirts of the district headquarters town of Sambalpur.
