India, June 17 -- The Bombay high court on Monday said the state government and its officers should be "ashamed" about the inaction over a "shocking" party at a home for children with mental deficiencies in Mankhurd on December 31, 2012, wherein 26 female inmates were made to dance alongside bar dancers and liquor was served to the attendees.

The court was hearing a petition filed by activist Sangeeta Punekar in 2014, which alleged that the party was held at the Home For Mentally Deficient Children in Mankhurd, run by the Children's Aid Society (CAS), a nonprofit. The state-aided home was established in 1941 and functioned under the aegis of the women and child development department till 2018, when it was transferred to the social justi...