Tiruppur City Police on Tuesday arrested the trustee and warden of Sri Vivekananda Sevalay, a private children’s home at Thirumuruganpondi near Tiruppur, where Three children died of suspected food poisoning on 6 Octoberthis year.
Of the 14 children at home, two died in the center and one in the hospital. Eleven children and the house watchman at Tiruppur Government Medical College were discharged after treatment.
Social Welfare Minister P. Geeta Jeevan inspected the house in Tirumuruganpondi and ordered its closure. Accordingly, the officers of the Revenue Department house sealed, District Child Protection Officer suspended post event.
City Police Commissioner S. “After analysis of the postmortem and food sample reports, the police concluded that the cause of death was the negligence of the home administration and not food poisoning,” Prabhakaran said.
The Tirumuruganpondi police on Tuesday arrested the trustee of the house, K. Senthilanathan (60) and Warden P. Gopi Krishnan (54) have been arrested on charges of negligence.
They have been booked under sections 304(2) (punishment for culpable homicide not amounting to murder) and 109 (punishment for abetment if committed in consequence and where no express provision has been made for its punishment) of the Indian Penal Code. went. Under section 75 of the Juvenile Justice Act. Police said that they have been sent to judicial custody.