Humane gesture of Madrassa

Gives shelter to a mentally retarded women, infant

Tahir Mushtaq (TNI)

JAMMU, Oct 03: Taking initiative a trust of Bhatandi, ‘Molana Ali Miyan Educational and Charitable Trust’, adopted the mentally retarded woman and her seven months legally who was abandoned from the past many months at Shri Maharaja Gulab Singh (SMGS) Hospital.

Sources said that when no government as well as private organization besides Non Government Organisation (NGO) adopted the mentally retarded lady beggar and her baby finally court has ordered to shift them to the Madrasa located at Bhatandi.

Sources said many times the administration approached different NGOs of the city but no one came forward to take care of mother-son duo. Owing to public apathy, the Hospital administration was compelled to look after the both.

Talking to TNI, a Trustee of the trust, Molvi Shakeel-ur-Rehman said that after getting the information about the lady and her child, our trust approached the court to adopt them.

“After completing all the legal formalities of court the trust adopted these two abandoned persons” he said.

He further said that no doubt we are also facing certain problems to tackle the mentally retarded woman, but we are trying our best to provide them every facility.

He informed that we have approached to one migrated family from Burma who is at present taking care of both of them, adding that the trust is planning to construct a small hut for them and arranging funds for the same.

It is pertinent to mention here that the duo was brought to SMGS hospital by people when they found the mentally challenged woman lying with her just born baby on roadside near Kachi Chawni. The baby boy was suffering from acute infection, and owing to his critical condition he was admitted in Neo-Natal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). His mother was also admitted in the hospital.

Pertinently, Court had ordered that if any person who wants to adopt the child should take care of mother as well besides, he has to transfer half of his/her half property in the name of the child as security, owing to which no individual came to forward to adopt them.