Lucknow: Brutalising of children for minor faults has become an order of the day. Three minor boys were tied to a rope and dragged as if they were animals, because they were suspected to have stolen a tyre from a shop. Though their crime could not be established. The owner of the shop and one of his workers tied the kids to a rope and dragged them. The incident that occurred in Lucknow shocked the residents when a video clip of it went viral on social media on Sunday. Just as the incident came to light through social media, the Thakurganj police in Lucknow registered an FIR against the man, Satyendra Mishra and his worker Krishna Saxena.
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Although the children were bitterly crying pleading their innocence, both Mishra and Saxena continued to drag them. No sooner had the police plunged into action than both the culprits ran away. Additional commissioner of police Chiranjeev Sinha said that an FIR had been registered against the culprits who would soon be arrested. Meanwhile, the child rights activists demanded a stringent action against the accused.
UP’s records of child abuse
Otherwise also, Uttar Pradesh has a poor track record of child abuse and torture. In the past three years, 43 cases of child abuse taking place in the state were reported to the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR).
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MP too does not lag behind
A few years ago, two children who were playing near a paddy purchase centre in Jabalpur district of Madhya Pradesh were beaten up because they made a noise. Not only that, after beating them up, the guard of the paddy purchase centre tied both of them to a chair. Similarly, in another incident, two Dalit children were mercilessly bashed up for touching utensils of another community. The incident occurred in Madhya Pradesh’s Damoh district. Such is the behaviour the children are getting from the elders in our country, said a child rights activist in Bhopal.
