{"id":312839,"date":"2019-06-03T08:03:29","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T08:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=312839"},"modified":"2019-06-03T08:03:29","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T08:03:29","slug":"muzaffarpur-shelter-home-case-sc-asks-cbi-to-complete-probe-within-three-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/muzaffarpur-shelter-home-case-sc-asks-cbi-to-complete-probe-within-three-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Muzaffarpur shelter home case: SC asks CBI to complete probe within three months"},"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-305446 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"451\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court-633x420.jpg 633w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 451px) 100vw, 451px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The\u00a0Supreme Court\u00a0on Monday asked the\u00a0Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)\u00a0to complete its probe in the\u00a0Muzaffarpur\u00a0shelter home case within three months.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">However, the agency had approached the court seeking six months to complete the inquiry, reports said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A vacation bench, comprising of Justices Indu Malhotra and MR Shah directed the CBI to probe allegations of unnatural sexual assault under Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and allegations of assault on the girls being recorded.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The bench also asked the agency to investigate the role of outsiders who facilitated the sexual assault of inmates by administering them intoxicants.<\/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 then directed the CBI to submit its report within three months.<\/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 had come to light after the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) filed a report about the sexual and physical abuse of several girls at the NGO-run shelter home in Muzaffarpur.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Supreme Court\u00a0on Monday asked the\u00a0Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)\u00a0to complete its probe in the\u00a0Muzaffarpur\u00a0shelter home case within three months. However, the agency had approached the court seeking six months to complete the inquiry, reports said. A vacation bench, comprising of Justices Indu Malhotra and MR Shah directed the CBI to probe allegations of unnatural sexual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":305446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[435,9962,1059],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312839"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312840,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312839\/revisions\/312840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/305446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}