Bihar shelter home abuse case: CBI registers fresh FIR

In February 2020, a Delhi court sentenced Brajesh Thakur, the shelter home’s owner, and 11 others to life imprisonment. During the probe, details of a physically and mentally ill girl, who was shown on paper to have been reunited with her parents in 2015, was found missing.

The FIR notes: “The case was registered at CBI on July 28, 2018 against officers/employees of Balka Grih, and CBI filed charge-sheet on December 18, 2018, against 21 persons, including the main accused Brajesh Thakur, owner of NGO Seva Sankalp Evam Vikas Samiti, which ran Balika Grih, Muzaffarpur… further investigation was kept open on certain points.”

“During investigation, it was revealed that one minor girl, who was physically and mentally disabled and was reportedly restored on November 10, 2015, to her father in compliance with the order dated November 10, 2015, purportedly passed by the Child Welfare Commission, Sitamarhi,” the FIR mentions. “During further investigation, it was found that the voter ID cards of her parents were fake and it was also found that mukhiya (head) of the village is a fictitious person — no such person ever functioned as mukhiya in their village.”

“It has been also established that the release order… was not signed by the then chairperson and the then member of CWC [Child Welfare Committee], Sitamarhi. The order was found to be fake and forged,” the FIR alleged. The Bihar government had handed over the probe to the CBI in March this year.

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