TIL Desk/National/Patna/ Breaking his silence, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has expressed deep anguish over the Muzaffarpur shelter home sex scandal and stressed on the need to develop institutional mechanisms to prevent recurrence of such incidents.
Kumar expressed his anguish over allegations of sexual exploitation of minor girls at the state-funded shelter home, at the launch of ‘Mukhyamantri Kanya Utthan Yojana’, a scheme run by his government for welfare of girls, in Patna. Medical examinations of 34 out of the 42 shelter home inmates have confirmed they were sexually exploited.
The owner of the shelter home, run by NGO ‘Seva Sankalp Evam Vikas Samiti’, Brajesh Thakur, is the main accused in the case. The issue was first highlighted in an audit report submitted by Tata Institute of Social Science (TISS), Mumbai, to Bihar’s Social Welfare Department in April.
“An instance has come to light in Muzaffarpur. It has left us with a sense of shame and guilt,” Kumar said. “We have always said that the guilty would not be spared and Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi has said on the floor of the assembly that we would ourselves like the CBI probe to be monitored by the high court,” Kumar said.
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