The NGO running the shelter home in Muzaffarpur was subsequently blacklisted by the state government and the girls were shifted to other shelter homes in Patna and Madhubani.
The Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday registered a money laundering case in the Muzzafarpur shelter home case relating to the alleged rape of minor girls by the NGO promoters and officials.
The agency will probe the money laundering angle into the scandal.
The ED took congnisance of the CBI case to probe the scandal at the shelter home. The ED will soon issue summons to the accused persons, including the owner of the shelter home, Brajesh Thakur.
The agency will probe if illegal funds were generated and laundered by the criminal activity going on at the shelter home, officials said.
As many as 34 girls were allegedly raped at the centre run by Thakur, chief of the state-funded NGO.
The alleged sexual exploitation of the girls was first highlighted in an audit report submitted by the Tata Institute of Social Science (TISS), Mumbai, to the Bihar government's Social Welfare Department in April.
An FIR was lodged on May 31 against 11 persons, including Thakur. The probe was subsequently taken over by the CBI following a countrywide outrage over the incident.
Sexual abuse of 34 inmates out of the 42 staying at the shelter home was confirmed in the medical examination.
The NGO running the shelter home in Muzaffarpur was subsequently blacklisted by the state government and the girls were shifted to other shelter homes in Patna and Madhubani.
A number of female staff of the shelter home and Thakur were among those arrested by the local police in connection with the case.
The Probe
The agency will probe if illegal funds were generated and laundered by the criminal activity going on at the shelter home, ED officials said
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