26 women found missing from 2 shelter homes in Pratapgarh

ALLAHABAD : At-least 26 women were found missing from two shelter homes in Pratapgarh, officials said. The DM said a team was constituted to inquire into the anomalies at the women shelters. The probe was set up after shelter superintendents failed to give satisfactory answers about the absence of women registered at the shelter homes.

At-least 26 women were found missing from two shelter homes in Pratapgarh during a surprise inspection by district magistrate Shambhu Kumar on Wednesday, officials said.

The district magistrate said a team was constituted to inquire into the anomalies at the women shelters. The probe was set up after shelter superintendents failed to give a satisfactory answer about the absence of women registered at the shelter homes, according to officials.

A team headed by the DM first inspected a women shelter home in Achalpur. The shelter’s records showed 15 women registered in the documents, but 12 of them were not present there. The shelter’s superintendent Neha Praveen claimed that the women had gone to work. The shelter authorities failed to provide the accounts register. The CCTV cameras were also found missing from the shelter. The team then inspected Swadhar Jagriti Grih at Ashtbhuja Nagar where 17 women were found registered in the documents. However, 14 of them were not present during the inspection. The manager Rama Mishra told the team that the women had gone out for some private work, officials said. The photographs of the women were found absent from the register.