Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 7: The members of Rotary Club were today grilled by the media as they instead of resigning owing the moral responsibility for their failure to protect the mentally retarded girls at Rotary Inner Wheel Home at Channi Rama from being subjected to sexual exploitation, criticized the media for exposing the scandal.
As soon as Sunil Jain, president Rotary Club Jammu started uttering words against the media for exposing the scandal during a press conference, the journalists from print as well as electronic media collectively grilled Mr Jain and other members, who were mostly interested in highlighting their achievements instead of having feeling of regret over the sexual exploitation of the mentally retarded girls that too in the home run by their organization.
The ‘criticism’ of the media from the members of the Club was notwithstanding the fact that it was only after media exposure that an advocate wrote a letter to the Chief Justice of State High Court, who while taking serious note of the incident, has treated the letter as Public Interest Litigation.
“With this kind of publicity in the print and electronic media, the entire good efforts of 34 years have been painted totally black and now the people will stop extending cooperation for running the Home”, Sunil Jain said, adding “no Rotarian is involved in the scandal. We have no role in the sexual abuse of the girls”.
Not only media, Mr Jain also criticized Jammu Police for getting the medical examination of the mentally retarded girls conducted without informing the members of the club.
Further criticizing the police, Mr Jain said that about two months back police had told them about the possibility of this heinous incident and asked them to provide the details besides some other records of the Home which was provided and inquiry was going on “but we were not informed regarding the status”.
Responding to a query whether the present members of Rotary Club will resign owing the moral responsibility for their failure in protecting the honour and dignity of these mentally retarded girls, Jain said, “no. The Club has no role in the incident as such the question of resigning doesn’t arise”.
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