This story is from August 31, 2019

CBI registers two FIRs in Deoria ‘horror home’ case

A year after the Deoria horror home case triggered nationwide outrage after a woman inmate blew the whistle on the sex-and-drug racket operating from its premises, CBI registered two FIRs late Thursday. The Uttar Pradesh government had recommended a probe by the central agency last year.
CBI registers two FIRs in Deoria ‘horror home’ case
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LUCKNOW: A year after the Deoria horror home case triggered nationwide outrage after a woman inmate blew the whistle on the sex-and-drug racket operating from its premises, CBI registered two FIRs late Thursday. The Uttar Pradesh government had recommended a probe by the central agency last year.
The first FIR is based on the complaint of a 13-year-old inmate who fled the shelter home, accusing the managers of sexual exploitation in August, 2018.
The second case relates to the complaint of a district probationary office (DPO), Deoria, who was thrashed when he went to inspect the shelter home. Last year, the Maa Vindhyavasini Mahila Balika Prashikshan Sansthan was embroiled in controversy after the inmate who fled the shelter home gave graphic details to cops on how girls were drugged and dispatched to ‘entertain powerful guests’.
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She also accused the director of the home, Girijia Tripathi, of running a sex racket. Chief minister Yogi Adityanath ordered a probe and referred the case to CBI.
CBI has booked shelter home director Girija Tripathi and superintendent Kanchan Lata and some unidentified persons for sexual harassment, wrongful confinement, human trafficking, sexual assault and illegal adoption.
In the second FIR, the investigating agency incorporated a complaint of the district probationary officer, Prabhat Kumar, against the duo and their associates, accusing them of assault and criminal force to deter public servant from discharging his duty.

The inmate from Bihar who fled the home had told police how teenage inmates would be bundled into pick-up vehicles and driven to clients to be dropped back at the shelter home the next day in battered, disheveled condition. Later, police rescued 24 other girls from the home. Deoria police registered the FIR on August 6, 2018, and the case was referred to CBI on August 9, same year. Thereafter Girija Tripathi, her husband and Kanchan Lata and others were arrested. Later Kanchan Lata and others were let off on bail while Girija Tripathi and her husband are still in judicial custody in Deoria district jail.
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