{"id":306252,"date":"2018-11-28T14:04:05","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T14:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=306252"},"modified":"2018-11-28T14:04:05","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T14:04:05","slug":"sc-directs-cbi-to-take-over-probe-of-sexual-abuse-cases-of-16-shelter-homes-in-bihar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/sc-directs-cbi-to-take-over-probe-of-sexual-abuse-cases-of-16-shelter-homes-in-bihar\/","title":{"rendered":"SC directs CBI to take over probe of sexual abuse cases of 16 shelter homes in Bihar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-299371 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Supreme-Court-1-300x175.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"547\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/Supreme-Court-1-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/Supreme-Court-1.jpg 636w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 547px) 100vw, 547px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Supreme Court on November 28 has directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to take over the probe into allegations of physical and sexual abuse of inmates at 16 shelter homes in Bihar in addition to the Muzaffarpur shelter home case which is already with CBI.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">An SC bench headed by Justice Madan B Lokur transferred the probe, being conducted by Bihar police, to the CBI while dismissing the state government&#8217;s request to not transfer the probe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">During the hearing, Justice Deepak Gupta said, &#8220;Every time I read this file (relating to the case), I find it tragic.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The top court asks CBI to must look into the grave concerns being raised in the report of Tata Institute of Social Sciences about 17 shelter homes in Bihar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The top court also added that CBI officers investigating the shelter home cases shall not be transferred without its prior permission.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Meanwhile, CBI told the SC bench, that in principle, it was ready to take over the probe and expected to file a charge sheet by December 7.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on November 28 has directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to take over the probe into allegations of physical and sexual abuse of inmates at 16 shelter homes in Bihar in addition to the Muzaffarpur shelter home case which is already with CBI. An SC bench headed by Justice Madan B [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":299371,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2915,2089,2014],"tags":[5388,5387,9962,134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306253,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306252\/revisions\/306253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}