Re-outline guidelines of ladies insurance homes: HC to Guj govt

Ahmedabad, May 5: The Gujarat High Court today requested the state government to re-outline rules administering the working of ladies’ security homes which it held as obsolete.

The course was given by a division seat of Justice Akil Kureshi and Justice A J Kogji on a PIL recorded by NGO Peace and Equality Cell and Sahiyar on the living state of its detainees.

The high court said the principles representing such homes were encircled in 1964 and should have been redesigned as they have gotten to be obsolete.

The seat likewise requested that Gujarat government fill the post of general Superintendent in each of these homes by August 15 and kept the matter for further hearing on June 8.

It likewise requested arrangement of a seven-part board of trustees which will prescribe new guidelines to Gujarat government.

The council has individuals from state government and NGOs among others.

The PIL was recorded after news reports in October 2014 of a few ladies from a security home in Odhav here getting away.

The appeal looked for the court’s heading to the state government to enhance viewpoints like foundation, restoration and recreational office, cleanliness, separate office for slow-witted ladies, among others.

Listening to the same PIL, the high court had before coordinated constitution of a four-part advisory group to visit no less than eight such homes in Ahmedabad, Surat, Rajkot, Vadodara, Godhra, Palitana, Chikhli and Bhuj.

The advisory group individuals, headed by the Principal Secretary of Women and Child Development office, went to these homes and presented a report which was set under the steady gaze of the court.