Patna District Magistrate Kumar Ravi and Senior Superintendent of Police Manu Maharaaj are monitoring the case
The police detained two persons and questioned them on Sunday, two days after a girl and a woman died at a shelter home in Patna in mysterious circumstances.
Patna District Magistrate Kumar Ravi and Senior Superintendent of Police Manu Maharaaj are monitoring the case. The police were informed about the deaths on Sunday morning.
According to a functionary of Aasra Grih, run by NGO Anumaya Human Resource Foundation, a 17-year-old inmate and another aged 41 complained of diarrhoea and high fever, respectively.
They were prescribed blood tests and medication by a doctor. Later, they were taken to Patna Medical College and Hospital when their condition deteriorated.
However, the PMCH administration said the they were dead by the time they reached the hospital. “We informed the police and conducted a postmortem as per the usual protocol. The reason for their death will be confirmed only after the autopsy reports are in,” said PMCH superintendent Dr Rajiv Ranjan. The Patna DM has formed a medical board for a second postmortem.
A police source said, “The autopsy will explain reasons of the deaths and whether there was any negligence on the part of the NGO. The reports are expected in a couple of days and their viscera samples have also been preserved for investigation.”
Earlier on Friday, the police had searched the shelter home following complaints of four girls trying to “escape”. The girls were later found, and a man, living in the same locality, was arrested by the police, for “trying to lure the girls by promising them gifts”.
The shelter home’s records were checked and some of its officials were also quizzed by the cops. One of the NGO officials alleged that the condition of the two women deteriorated because they were not given their medicines on Friday, when most of them were at the police station for the probe. Aasra Grih, established earlier this year, houses around 75 residents.
The incident follows the horror in a state-funded Muzaffarpur shelter home, where at least 34 girls were raped and tortured over a period of time allegedly by its officials and visitors.
The case is being probed by the CBI.
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