Parents Booked For Dressing Up Child in Jail Clothes With Darshan's Prisoner Number

Bengaluru:  Karnataka State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (KSCPCR) on Wednesday directed Cyber Crime Police in Bengaluru to initiate action against the parents of a child for allegedly dressing him like a jail inmate with prisoner number 6106 suggesting Kannada actor Darshan Thoogudeepa. 

Darshan, his friend Pavithra Gowda and 15 others are currently in the Central jail at Parappana Agrahara here in connection with the Renukaswamy murder case. The photo of the baby, with the hand-written slip ‘Jai D. Boss’ pasted next to it - an apparent reference to Darshan - was shared by an Instagram user, who said it is "trending".

In a letter to the Cyber Crime Division of the Criminal Investigation Department, the KSCPCR Chairperson K Naganna Gowda said action should be taken against those responsible for sharing the photographs.

“We don’t even call children as accused or criminals even when they do something wrong unknowingly. We call them ‘children involved in legal fight’. Such effects should not befall on children,” Gowda said in his letter.

“Instead of providing a good atmosphere for children we should not thrust our love or blind love for someone on them,” he said. (with PTI inputs)