Muzaffarpur shelter home: None of the 35 inmates murdered, CBI tells SC

The attorney-general told the court that the children, who were alleged to have been murdered were later traced and are alive.

Ex-inmate of Muzaffarpur shelter home gangraped

The victim was rescued from Muzaffarpur shelter home and was living with her relatives in Bettiah town police station.

Tejashwi added that his party would continue to raise the issue during its poll campaign for the sixth and seventh phases in Bihar.

In its affidavit, the CBI claimed that it discovered a bundle of bones from a burial site.

Over 30 girls were allegedly raped at the shelter home, run by Thakur, chief of the state-funded NGO.

The incident has also exposed the laxity in the security of the shelter homes in Bihar.

Hearing the petition, the court directed the CBI under 164 of the CrPC to look into the prayers of the petitioner.

The ED is also preparing to file its preliminary chargesheet in the case very soon.

The TISS report had pointed to sexual exploitation in at least 15 out of 110 state-run shelter homes run by the social welfare departmet.

The Enforcement Directorate, they said, will soon issue summons to the accused including the shelter home owner Brajesh Thakur.