Ranchi: Acting chief justice of Jharkhand High Court D.N. Patel visited the state-run observation home for boys at Dumardaga on Sunday to take stock of the security arrangement and computer training facilities for the inmates.

Patel reached the observation home at 10am and stayed there for around one hour talking to the officials of social welfare departments and the children in conflict with law. He was accompanied by secretary of Jharkhand Legal Service Authority A.K. Roy, principal judicial commissioner of Ranchi Navneet Kumar and director of integrated child development society Rajesh Kumar.

District social welfare officer Kanchan Singh said the acting chief justice asked her to pay proper attention on the security of children and their rehabilitation.

"He visited the computer room where we impart training to the children and asked about the measures taken to provide a healthy atmosphere to the inmates," Singh told The Telegraph.

On April 1 this year, four undertrial juvenile inmates, facing charges of murder and theft, had escaped from the remand home. They used a volleyball net to scale the 15-feet high boundary wall topped with 3-feet high barbed wire.

After the incident, state commission for protection of child rights chairperson Arti Kujur visited the observation home and had observed that there were only five personnel to take care of the requirements inside against the total requirement of 24.

Singh said that Patel was informed about the manpower crunch during his visit and he took note of the problem.