The Children of the World (India) Trust in Navi Mumbai is facing an enquiry over allegations of rampant malpractices made by one of its trustees Rabindra Hazari. The trust was set up on a plot leased out by CIDCO as a specialised adoption centre to provide help, assistance and guidance for the benefit and welfare of children and women, particularly abandoned babies and infants.

Hazari, in a letter to I A Kundan, secretary, Women and Child Development (WCD) Department on October 6, alleged that the trust made physical alterations to the plot to open Youth Centre. He also alleged that trust’s chairperson Meena Mathew, in connivance with other trustees, has violated the Juvenile Justice Act.