{"id":309507,"date":"2019-02-16T12:03:13","date_gmt":"2019-02-16T12:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=309507"},"modified":"2019-02-16T12:03:13","modified_gmt":"2019-02-16T12:03:13","slug":"muzaffarpur-shelter-home-case-pocso-court-orders-cbi-probe-against-bihar-cm-nitish-kumar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/muzaffarpur-shelter-home-case-pocso-court-orders-cbi-probe-against-bihar-cm-nitish-kumar\/","title":{"rendered":"Muzaffarpur shelter home case: POCSO court orders CBI probe against Bihar CM Nitish Kumar"},"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-309508 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/nitish-kumar-300x175.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"514\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/nitish-kumar-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/nitish-kumar.jpg 578w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 514px) 100vw, 514px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A special court on the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) in Muzaffarnagar has ordered a CBI probe against Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar in connection with the Bihar shelter home rape case.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Moreover, the court ordered an inquiry against Muzaffarpur district magistrate Dharmendra Singh and principal secretary of Social Welfare Atul.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The special POCSO court passed the order on an application filed by an accused, Ashwani, a self-styled medical practitioner who allegedly used to inject the home&#8217;s inmates with sedatives before they were subject to sexual abuse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Ashwani had alleged in his petition that the CBI was &#8220;suppressing facts&#8221; in course of the investigation which would come to light if the roles of Dharmendra Singh, Atul and CM Nitish Kumar were probed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">POCSO judge Manoj Kumar directed the CBI to conduct an investigation against the aforesaid people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The trial in the high-profile case was this month transferred to the Special POCSO court at Saket in Delhi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The case came to light in May last year when a report of the social audit of the Muzaffarpur shelter home was conducted by Mumbai based Tata Institute of Social Sciences.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Brajesh Thakur, a journalist-turned-social activist heading the NGO which ran the shelter home, and other accused were arrested.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A special court on the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) in Muzaffarnagar has ordered a CBI probe against Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar in connection with the Bihar shelter home rape case.\u00a0 Moreover, the court ordered an inquiry against Muzaffarpur district magistrate Dharmendra Singh and principal secretary of Social Welfare Atul.\u00a0 The special [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":309508,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2915,2089,2014],"tags":[842,3938,2684,10887],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309507"}],"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=309507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309509,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309507\/revisions\/309509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/309508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}