The Madras High Court bench here

The Madras High Court bench here
today directed to constitute a committee with Tiruchirappalli District Collector as chairperson and immediately take over orphanage, Mose Ministries - a home run by Siloam Evangelical Mission (India)ltd, owned by a couple including a German.
Justices V Ramasubramanian and N Kirubakaran gave the direction disposing two writ petitions, including Change India, an NGO, praying for a CBI inquiry ino the trafficking and illegal confinement of 89 girls in an orphanage and direct social welfare department to restore the children to their parents.
They also sought for a direction to register the orphanage under Juvenile Justice Act.

They submitted that a committee would be formed comprising chairman of Tiruchirappalli Child Welfare Committee, District Child Protection Officer, District Social Welfare Officer and two members of Indian Council for Child Welfare.
They also submitted that the Gideon Jacob, Pastor of the Mose Ministries or his nominee should not visit the home.

All the records of the home should be handed over to the officials. The Indian council for child welfare should send two volunteers for two weeks to interract with the inmates and help them get over with any obsession that they have about outside world, they submitted.
To ensure safety and security of the children, a woman constable in plain clothes could be deployed every day.

The judges said the chilren be allowed to celebrate Christmas and new year as they had been brought with a particular orientation. They said the Pastor, who received foreign contributions should give Rs six lakh to the committee for running the home.
Change India charged that the children were not allowed to go out of their home and taken to Germany to collect money. They were living under suspicious circumstance and hence they should be rescued.
Additional District Judge Deepthi Arivunithi who went to the home for an enquiry submitted the home did not fulfill the eligibility criteria.
The children did not know about their parents. Earlier the district social welfare officer also criticised the home in her report.