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Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 22 (PTI): After facing embarrassment over a ruling party leader being booked for kidnapping his grandchild, the Kerala government on Friday ordered a departmental probe into the incident even as the CPI(M) said it wants the mother to get her baby back.
The Women and Child Welfare Department would probe into the complaints from Anupama S Chandran against her father and CPI(M) local committee member P S Jayachandran regarding the alleged abduction and the abandonment of her baby in an electric cradle owned by the State Council for Child Welfare.
Veena George, State Minister for Women and Child Welfare, said the department secretary Rani George has been entrusted with the probe.
It was assumed that the grandfather had abandoned the infant in the electric cradle here, she said.
"Directions have been given to clearly examine whether all the mandatory procedures were followed after the child was received at the cradle by the Council.
I have asked for a comprehensive report, which is expected soon," George told reporters here.