Muzaffarpur case: CBI searches 12 places in Bihar (Lead)
Friday - August 17, 2018 3:10 pm ,
Category : INDIA
Muzaffarpur case: CBI searches 12 places in Bihar (Lead)
Patna Aug 17 (IANS) The CBI on Friday raided 12 places in Bihar including former Minister Manju Verma s residence in connection with its probe into the Muzaffarpur shelter home rape cases an official said.
The Central Bureau of Investigation team conducted searches at Verma s residence in Patna and Begusarai.
They interrogated the former Social Welfare Minister and her husband Chandeshwar Verma separately.
"The CBI has been conducting searches at Verma s residence since early Friday morning. It is still underway. The CBI also quizzed one of Verma s personal assistants " a police official said.
Manju Verma resigned on August 8 following allegations that Brajesh Thakur the main accused in the case had links with her husband.
The CBI has also raided Thakur s Hindi newspaper office in Patna and also the property of councillor of Social Welfare Department Sunil Kumar Jha.
In Muzzafarpur the CBI raided seven places including Thakur s hotel and his house in his native village. Raids were also conducted at the places of Thakur s man Friday Suman Sahi and close confidant Madhu.
According to official sources here the CBI teams have recovered several evidences related to the case.
Arrested on June 2 Thakur is currently lodged in Muzaffarpur jail.
Of the 42 girls lodged at the short-stay home run by an NGO of Thakur 34 minor girls were found to have been sexually assaulted. The crime came to light after a social audit by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences Mumbai.
The shelter home has been sealed.
--IANS ik/ksk/sed
The Central Bureau of Investigation team conducted searches at Verma s residence in Patna and Begusarai.
They interrogated the former Social Welfare Minister and her husband Chandeshwar Verma separately.
"The CBI has been conducting searches at Verma s residence since early Friday morning. It is still underway. The CBI also quizzed one of Verma s personal assistants " a police official said.
Manju Verma resigned on August 8 following allegations that Brajesh Thakur the main accused in the case had links with her husband.
The CBI has also raided Thakur s Hindi newspaper office in Patna and also the property of councillor of Social Welfare Department Sunil Kumar Jha.
In Muzzafarpur the CBI raided seven places including Thakur s hotel and his house in his native village. Raids were also conducted at the places of Thakur s man Friday Suman Sahi and close confidant Madhu.
According to official sources here the CBI teams have recovered several evidences related to the case.
Arrested on June 2 Thakur is currently lodged in Muzaffarpur jail.
Of the 42 girls lodged at the short-stay home run by an NGO of Thakur 34 minor girls were found to have been sexually assaulted. The crime came to light after a social audit by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences Mumbai.
The shelter home has been sealed.
--IANS ik/ksk/sed
