Muzaffarpur shelter home case: Complete probe on 11 girls’ deaths, file report by June 3, SC tells CBI

Appearing for the probe agency, Attorney General K K Venugopal told the bench that 11 girl inmates of the shelter home were suspected to have have been killed and that sleuths had recovered bones from a burial ground.

He added that 35 girls who were living in the home had identical names, because of which the CBI would need more time to probe. The AG stated that the agency would not be able to complete the probe by June 3.

The alleged abuse and rape of the girls living the shelter home run by key accused in the case Brajesh Thakur had come to light following an audit report by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS). The probe was transferred to the CBI and the agency charge sheeted 21 people, including Thakur.

Denying allegations that it was not filing murder charges against Thakur and others in the case, the CBI had earlier told the court in an affidavit that it was still investigating the allegations that they had killed 11 girls.

The CBI stated: “From the statements of victims recorded by IOs (investigating officers) and NIMHANS team, names of 11 girls emerged, who were said to be allegedly murdered by the accused Brajesh Thakur and his associates…These allegations are being duly investigated…”