Showdown at top of national child rights protection commission

A showdown has broken out at the top of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR), with the battle between its chairperson and member secretary currently playing out in court.

The commission, headed by retired IAS officer Stuti Kacker, had passed a resolution in February recommending that member secretary Asheem Srivastav be either transferred or repatriated to his parent cadre; it cited ?obstructionist? attitude and ?misbehaviour?. For his part, Srivastav has taken the commission and chairperson Kacker to Delhi High Court, questioning their authority to pass the resolution against a government appointee while also levelling allegations of financial malpractices and bias towards certain NGOs.
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