No girl inmates killed in Muzaffarpur shelter home, CBI tells Supreme Court

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that no children were murdered in the Muzaffarpur shelter home adding and the skeletons found at the shelter home were not of minor inmates.

"No girl was killed in Muzaffarpur shelter home and skeletons found were not of inmate minors," Attorney General KK Venugopal, who was appearing for the CBI, told the court.

The agency further added that all the 35 children who were alleged to have been killed in the Muzaffarpur shelter home were traced and found to be alive.

In its report submitted to the top court, CBI said that two skeletons were recovered but they were found to be of a woman and a man in forensic investigation.

The CBI submitted before the apex court that investigation in all 17 shelter homes cases, including Muzaffarpur(Bihar) shelter home abuse case, has been completed. A bench headed by Chief Justice SA Bobde accepted the report and allowed two officers to be relieved from the probe team. 

Notably, allegations of sexual and physical assault of several minor girls at the NGO-run shelter home in Muzaffarpur had come to light April 2018 following a report by Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) that was submitted to the Bihar’s social welfare department. 

In May 2018, a case was registered against 11 people, including prime accused Brajesh Thakur. The Supreme Court had tasked the CBI with probing similar allegations at 16 other shelter homes in Bihar, flagged by TISS in its report.