thiruvananthapuram in the wake of recent unconfirmed reports about three girls offered as human sacrifice at edamalakuddy village panchayat in idukki district a team from kerala state commission for protection of child rights kescpcr had visited the tribal hamlets in the village panchayat and had sought the state for action to improve the condition of the tribal children a team from kescpcr had visited edamalakudy after reports of children offered as human sacrifice it was also brought to the notice here by an ngo based on some information they received though our team with the child protection officer visited the tribal hamlets at edamalakudy there was nothing that indicated such a sacrifice and it sounds dicey now the police investigation is on kescpcr chairperson shobha koshy told toi the commission team had also made a visit earlier in july and had come up with a set of recommendations to improve the condition of tribal hamlets in edamalakudy she said kescpcr members k nazeer and meena cu had visited the panchayat to ascertain the veracity of the reports on human sacrifice but could not find anything the tribal community in edamalakudy has a high moral ground they are morally equipped and advanced in terms of their thinking not a single rape had been reported from the area yet the report of child sacrificed as part of human sacrifice to propitiate religious deities seems fake now investigations are on by the police led by state police chief commission member k nazeer said till now the police investigation has found that such a report on human sacrifice is fake and baseless while members of national human rights and social justice commission nhrsjc an ngo with its offices across the country indicate that they submitted a report to national and state child rights commission based on information received from individuals in munnar that three children all girls below 10 years were offered as human sacrifice about eight months back we had submitted a report based on some information received and sought for further enquiry in case it is found then awareness needs to be created to check superstitious beliefs it was not intended to defame any community the tribal settlements in edamalakudy are in forest area amidst wild life so on hearing about such an incident we had thought to bring it to the notice of the authorities nhrsjc member told toi the report is based on hearsay as informants whereabouts were not divulged nor any details relating to such human sacrifice kescpcr members said meanwhile kescpcr has called for an actiontaken report from the state government and the concerned tribal and district authorities on the set of recommendations to empower the tribal community based on its visit to edmalakudy the commission report indicates that edamalakudy panchayat has about 26 tribal hamlets with about 2220 residents and it takes one to two hours by foot to walk from one hamlet to another it has two major hamlets idalippara and society hamlet with only one