After Bihar, a shelter home in UP present stories of atrocities on girls

Bihar social welfare minister Manju Verma resigns

 Bihar Social Welfare Minister Manju Verma has tendered resignation from her post in the wake of allegation levelled against her husband Chandrashekhar Verma in the alleged sexual exploitation of minor girls at Muzaffarpur shelter home.   Earlier CBI had investigated call detail record ( CDR) of Brajesh Thakur who is main accused of alleged sexual exploitation at shelter home.  The agency found the husband of Manju Verma was in regular contact with Thakur.  There was 17 times conversation between husband of Ms Verma and Brajesh Thakur from January to May this year. It has also been revealed that both had travelled to Delhi many times.  The CBI is investigating documents of travel agency.  Meanwhile, CBI has interrogated driver of main accused Brajesh Thakur. The driver disclosed the husband of Manju Verma was a frequent visitor of Muzaffarpur shelter home. Ten persons have so far been arrested including main accused Brajesh Thakur.

After Muzaffarpur shelter home horror in bihar,the Deoria Police in Uttar Pradesh has unearthed a similar horror in a Women and Girls’ Shelter Home in the district.

Rohan P Kanay, the Superintendent of Police Deoria, said that the police conducted a raid at the shelter home and rescued 24 girls. The police also arrested three people, identified as Kanchan Lata, Girija Tripathi and Mohan Tripathi, who were running the shelter home.

“On checking records, it has come to light that 18 girls were missing from the protection home. We are interrogating the arrested persons about their whereabouts. The rescued girls are being sent for a medical examination to confirm if they were forced into the sex racket,” said Kanay.

Ironically, the license of the shelter home was cancelled last year after a CBI inquiry but despite that it was being run illegally. The District Probation Officer Prabhat Kumar said that he had written to the superintendent of shelter home Kanchan Lata to shift girls to Gorakhpur but they refused to do so.

The horrors came to the light when a 16-year-old girl from the shelter home reached the police station and narrated her ordeal. She told the police that a car used to come every night and ‘madam used to send one of us along with a man’.