Muzaffarpur Shelter House

The building in Muzaffarpur that housed a shelter home where inmates were allegedly sexually abused is being demolished, officials said.

Former Bihar minister Manju Verma, facing trial in an Arms Act case after recovery of ammunition from her house during a CBI raid in connection with the Muzaffarpur shelter home sex scandal, alleged Saturday that she was being harassed as she is a woman and belong to the "weaker" Kushwaha caste.

One of the four minor girls who had escaped from a shelter home in Patna, has reached her home in West Bengal and efforts are on to trace the three others, Bihar police said today. The girls had escaped from the government-funded Asha Kiran Home For Girls in Patliputra colony early Sunday by using their 'dupattas' as a rope to climb down from its s...

An FIR was registered against Bihar's former social welfare minister Manju Verma and her husband under Arms Act following the recovery of 50 cartridges from her in-law's house during a CBI raid in connection with the Muzaffarpur shelter home sex scandal, police said.

The Nitish Kumar government has ordered an inquiry to ascertain why government officials did not act on a report of a top child rights protection body that had raised red flags about the functioning of the Muzaffarpur shelter home for girls, dubbed the house of horrors.

The man allegedly at the heart of Muzaffarpur's house of horrors -- a children's shelter where more than 30 girls were tortured and sexually abused over a period of 4 years -- was seen grinning hugely while being led away by the police over the week-end.

Girls as young as seven were drugged, raped, forced to sleep naked and scalded with boiling water at a government-run shelter home in Bihar dubbed the house of horrors. Over 30 girls were raped in the Muzaffarpur home by its politically connected owner and its staff, reveals a police charge-sheet.

A day after the Bihar police chief said there was no need of a CBI probe into the Muzaffarpur shelter home sex scandal, the Nitish Kumar government on Thursday morning, handed over the probe to the top investigating agency. The state government was under pressure after the opposition, led by RJD's Tejashwi Yadav, stuck to its demand of a CBI probe....

The building in Muzaffarpur that housed a shelter home where inmates were allegedly sexually abused is being demolished, officials said.

Former Bihar minister Manju Verma, facing trial in an Arms Act case after recovery of ammunition from her house during a CBI raid in connection with the Muzaffarpur shelter home sex scandal, alleged Saturday that she was being harassed as she is a woman and belong to the "weaker" Kushwaha caste.

One of the four minor girls who had escaped from a shelter home in Patna, has reached her home in West Bengal and efforts are on to trace the three others, Bihar police said today. The girls had escaped from the government-funded Asha Kiran Home For Girls in Patliputra colony early Sunday by using their 'dupattas' as a rope to climb down from its s...

An FIR was registered against Bihar's former social welfare minister Manju Verma and her husband under Arms Act following the recovery of 50 cartridges from her in-law's house during a CBI raid in connection with the Muzaffarpur shelter home sex scandal, police said.

The Nitish Kumar government has ordered an inquiry to ascertain why government officials did not act on a report of a top child rights protection body that had raised red flags about the functioning of the Muzaffarpur shelter home for girls, dubbed the house of horrors.

The man allegedly at the heart of Muzaffarpur's house of horrors -- a children's shelter where more than 30 girls were tortured and sexually abused over a period of 4 years -- was seen grinning hugely while being led away by the police over the week-end.

Girls as young as seven were drugged, raped, forced to sleep naked and scalded with boiling water at a government-run shelter home in Bihar dubbed the house of horrors. Over 30 girls were raped in the Muzaffarpur home by its politically connected owner and its staff, reveals a police charge-sheet.

A day after the Bihar police chief said there was no need of a CBI probe into the Muzaffarpur shelter home sex scandal, the Nitish Kumar government on Thursday morning, handed over the probe to the top investigating agency. The state government was under pressure after the opposition, led by RJD's Tejashwi Yadav, stuck to its demand of a CBI probe....