The Indian Express has learnt that two inquiry reports into the issue, prepared by Women and Child Development Department, were allegedly riddled with falsities, prompting Sisodia to lash out at the department’s secretary over what he termed a “fraud”.
New Delhi: Anganwadi registers were allegedly “fudged”, pages “pulled out” and pencil records “erased” and overwritten to falsely establish that three sisters aged 8, 4 and 2, who died of starvation in east Delhi last year, fell under the safety net of the state-run Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia is learnt to have written in file notings on the issue.
The Indian Express has learnt that two inquiry reports into the issue, prepared by the Delhi government’s Women and Child Development Department (WCD), were allegedly riddled with falsities, prompting Sisodia to lash out at the department’s secretary over what he termed a “fraud”.
According to official records, the family of the three girls — Mansi (8), Shikha (4) and Parul (2) — who were found dead in a one-room tenement in east Delhi’s Mandawali on July 24, 2018, were in the catchment area of anganwadi number 62 of that neighbourhood.
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