Muzaffarpur hit the headlines after a Dalit girl's body was found in a pond near her village with her legs tied and cut marks on her body. The girl was kidnapped from her home on August 11.
The shocking matter came to light after one of the survivors filed a complaint against the nine people before the court, prompting police to take action. The survivor claimed that police refused to file a case then she moved to court.
A Delhi court has sought CBI's reply by January 18 on a plea filed by Brajesh Thakur, prime accused in alleged sexual and physical assault on several girls in a Muzaffarpur shelter home, claiming that the testimonies of witnesses in the case were not reliable.
Additional Sessions Judge Sudesh Kumar deferred the verdict till January 14 next year, as Judge Saurabh Kulshrestha, who had conducted the trial, was on leave on Thursday.
A Delhi court Monday reserved its judgment in the Muzaffarpur shelter home case where several girls were sexually and physically assaulted.
The Muzaffarpur horror had come to light in May 2018 when the Bihar Social Welfare Department filed an FIR based on the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) social audit.
A Delhi court on Monday directed the CBI to appoint within two days a special public prosecutor in the Muzaffarpur shelter home sexual assault case.
The CBI has seized 50 live cartridges from the former Minister's Begusarai home.
The Patna High Court had ordered that a fresh team of investigators should be constituted by the Central Bureau of Investigation's Special Director to probe the case.
Thakur was produced before a POSCO court in Muzaffarpur along with nine other accused arrested in the case amid tight security.
Rajnath Singh while describing the Deoria incident as shameful and unfortunate and assured that guilty won't be spared.
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