Nitish Kumar recommends CBI Investigation in Bihar shelter rape case

On allegations of Social Welfare Minister's husband Chandeshwar Verma visiting the shelter home with other people, Manju Verma said that “I visited the Balika griha in February this year and he had accompanied me."

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NEW DELHI: CBI probe was recommended by Nitish Kumar in into the alleged rape of inmates and murder of a girl at a government-funded shelter home at Muzaffarpur in Bihar on Thursday. The horrific case of sexual exploitation of inmates of a shelter home at Muzaffarpur had come to light more than a month ago in a report of a Mumbai-based social science institute which had conducted an audit of the state-funded establishment run by an NGO. On allegations of Social Welfare Minister's husband Chandeshwar Verma visiting the shelter home with other people, Manju Verma  said that “I visited the Balika griha in February this year and he had accompanied me." "I can say that had I been more experienced, I would not have taken my husband along on an official tour. But all this talk of his frequent visits is nonsense and intended to tarnish our reputation," she said. Earlier, Home Minister Rajnath Singh "If there is a recommendation from the state government, then the Centre will consider ordering a CBI probe into the matter," Till now, 8 women and 3 men, including operator Brajesh Thakur have been arrested. Police had launched a search for the body of an inmate of a state-funded shelter home for girls here who was allegedly beaten to death by staff members.