Muzaffarpur Case: Five Girls, Not Two, Died at Shelter Home, Discovers CBI

The police said that the post-mortems of all the five girls were conducted at a government hospital and the CBI officials are now trying to find as to whom the bodies of the girls were handed over.

Muzaffarpur (Bihar): The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday discovered that five girls, and not two as was reported earlier, had died at the Muzaffarpur shelter home in Bihar. The police said that the post-mortems of all the five girls were conducted at a government hospital and the CBI officials are now trying to find as to whom the bodies of the girls were handed over.

Highlights

Five girls died at Muzaffarpur shelter home.
Post-mortems were conducted at a government hospital.
Post-mortems of two were conducted in 2013, two in 2015, one in 2017.

The CBI, probing the alleged rape of 34 girls at the shelter home, on Sunday searched documents at Shri Krishna Medical College and Hospital and found that the post-mortems of five girls of the shelter home were conducted there. According to the hospital register, the post-mortems of two girls were conducted in 2013, two in 2015 and one in 2017.

The investigation agency is also trying to discover if the cases in the death of the three remaining girls were registered. “A team of CBI officials is likely to soon interrogate some hospital doctors to collect more details about the case,” a district police officer was quoted as saying by news agency IANS.

The investigation agency had earlier found five human skeletons at a cremation site in Sikandarpur. t had also carried out an extensive excavation at the shelter home premises on suspicion that some inmates might have been killed and buried there, but could not recover anything from there.

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As many as 34 girls were tortured, raped, burnt and starved by operators and visitors in a shelter home in Bihar. The Bihar shelter home assault case came to light in a social audit report by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. The report was based on the conversation with several girls at the home.

Before the report came out, an inspection team had reportedly claimed to have sent across a report on the0 pathetic living condition of the girls at the shelter home but “no action was taken”. Soon after Bihar’s Social Welfare Minister Manju Verma wad forced to resign over the case. An FIR was registered against her when 50 live cartridges were seized from her residence and other locations.

On Saturday, November 17, the police attached the property of Manju Verma who has been evading arrest in an Arms Act case which cropped up in course of a CBI probe into the Muzaffarpur shelter home sex scandal. The action comes a day after Begusarai’s Manjhaul Court declared her an absconder and ordered for attaching her properties.