NDTV: Ahmedabad: Sunday, September 24, 2017.
The Gujarat
child rights panel yesterday sought a report from the civil administration and
the police about steps taken by a Jain couple, who are embracing monkhood
today, to secure their three-year-old daughter's future.
The Madhya
Pradesh-based Jain couple Sumit Rathore and his wife Anamika had last week
announced their decision to become monks under the Shwetambar (white-clad)
order of their religion and leave behind their daughter and renounce property
"worth Rs. 100 crore".
The deeksha
(initiation) ceremony will take place at Surat under Sadhumargi Jain Acharya
Ramlal Maharaj, their family members said in Surat yesterday.
However,
concerned about the future of the couple's child, a person had recently filed a
query under the Right to Information Act with the Gujarat State Commission for
Protection of Child Rights (GSCPCR), its chairperson Jagruti Pandya said.
"Through
the RTI application, a person sought to know from us what will happen to the
child if the couple become monks," she said.
Since the
ceremony is being held in Surat, the police commissioner and the collector have
been asked to find out what steps the couple have taken for their daughter's
future and give a report to the GSCPCR, Jagruti Pandya said.
While most of
the couple's family members who have arrived in Surat remained tight-lipped
about the fate of the child, some others told reporters that the couple's
family members will take care of the child.
Anamika's
father Ashok Chandaliya, former Neemuch district president of the BJP, had last
week said he would take care of his granddaughter. "I am not against my
daughter Anamika becoming a nun," he had said.
Sumit's
father Rajendra Singh, who runs a factory that makes gunny bags for packaging
cement, had also echoed a similar view.
Sumit had
worked in London before managing his family business in Neemuch while his
engineer wife Anamika was earlier employed with a mining major. They are
married for four years.
Sumit's
cousin Sandip Rathore had earlier claimed that Sumit owns properties
"running into Rs. 100 crore".
Earlier this
year, a Jain teenage boy from Gujarat, who had scored 99.99 percentile in Class
12 Commerce examination, took the vow of monkhood.
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