The Muzaffarpur shelter case refers to a shelter home that ran under a non-governmental organization called "Sewa Sankalp Evam Vikas Samiti" at Muzaffarpur, Bihar, where cases of sexual abuse, rape and torture were reported.
[1] Brajesh Thakur was the chief of the state-funded NGO, ran several other NGOs and a Hindi newspaper called Pratah Kamal.
[6] On 2 August 2018, Supreme Court of India took a suo moto cognizance in the Muzaffarpur shelter home case.
[7] Brajesh Thakur is the prime accused in Muzaffarpur shelter home case where 34 girls, aged between 7 and 17, were raped for months.
The nub of his appeal is the alleged failure of the Bihar Police and the CBI to conduct "potency test" on him and "despite examining his wife", her statement under section 161 Cr.P.C.
[13] On 3 August 2018, the Supreme court of India reprimanded media organizations for repeatedly interviewing the victims to avoid traumatizing them and asked for pictures not to be published, even in morphed form.
[14] On 4 August 2018, some political parties led a statewide strike in Bihar, which was also supported by the Congress and RJD.
[16][17] Ruling party JD(U) has fielded controversial former state cabinet minister Manju Verma, who had resigned over shelter case row, as a candidate in 2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election.
Reports find that the CBI never investigated the connection between Verma and one Poonam Sinha of Integrated Child Protection Scheme, whose possible complicity was indicated by Ravi Roshan (also pronounced as 'Raushan'), a convict in the case.
The supervision report said, "further Raushan said that Manju Verma, Amaresh Kumar Amar (PA to minister) and Poonam Sinha, who was earlier child district protection officer and is now an assistant director in the Ministry; It was Poonam who used to talk to all the directors."