The 16-year-old girl recovered by the police on Wednesday is believed to be one of the key witnesses
The Bihar Police heaved a sigh of relief on Wednesday after recovering the seventh girl, who had gone 'missing' from a short-stay home in Mokama last week, from Madhubani district on the interceding night of Tuesday and Wednesday.
Six others, who had escaped from Mokama, had been found in Darbhanga within 24 hours of their 'escape'.
Four of the seven girls who ran away from the facility were from the Muzaffarpur Balika Grih and the 16-year-old girl recovered by the police on Wednesday is believed to be one of the key witnesses in the case pertaining to physical, mental and sexual torture and rape of girls at the state-run shelter home in Muzaffarpur.
A source in the Bihar Police said three men who were there with the girl in Madhubani, had been detained for interrogation, while the girl was brought to Patna and was being questioned by the cops.
"The circumstances of the girls' escape are yet to be fully established. It is early to say if the girls escaped on their own or received any outside help. No involvement about NGO Nazareth Academy (which runs the Mokama short stay home) has surfaced so far," the Bihar Police said in a press statement issued on Wednesday.
The police said further investigation of the case is continuing and the Special Investigation Team (SIT) will come out with all details after completing the probe soon.
The "escape" of seven girls, including witnesses of Muzaffarpur shelter home case, had put the Bihar government in a tight spot with the Opposition alleging that the girls had not run away on their own but their escape had been "facilitated" in order to "weaken the Muzaffarpur rape case, protect the chief minister and the government machinery".
The Muzaffarpur shelter home scandal had come to light in May last year after a social audit report of Tata Institute of Social Sciences had revealed that at least 30 girls were raped and tortured at the state-run institution over a period of several months. The case was transferred to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and is being heard in a Delhi court on the orders of the Supreme Court of India.
CRUCIAL LINK
- The 16-year-old girl recovered by the police on Wednesday is believed to be one of the key witnesses
- The Muzaffarpur shelter home scandal had come to light in May last year
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