Bihar: Condoms, drugs seized from Muzaffarpur shelter home

PATNA: A team of forensic experts along with Muzaffarpur police on Wednesday seized four boxes of condoms and medicines from the terrace of ‘Swadhaar Grih’, a shelter home from where 11 women were reportedly found missing. Located at Choti Kalyani under Muzaffarpur Town police station area, the home was funded by the Union ministry of women and child development and monitored by the state social welfare department.

The Muzaffarpur police on Monday had lodged an FIR against NGO Seva Sankalp Evam Vikas Samiti of Brajesh Thakur, who is already in jail for allegedly raping at least 34 minor girls of a Balika Grih run by his NGO in the town.

Muzaffarpur Town DSP Mukul Ranjan said, “Several condoms and medicines were thrown on the terrace and kept in the boxes. Several registers were also seized during the operation,” he said.

Ranjan said the registers had details of bank accounts and women’s admissions. “The registers contain other information as well,” he said.

Police sources said the social welfare department officials, during an inspection of the ‘Swadhaar Grih’ on March 20, had found the 11 women getting various types of skill development training. But on June 9, the officials found the home locked and all the ‘occupants’ missing.

Meanwhile, the CBI, which is investigating the Balika Grih case, quizzed social welfare department’s principal secretary Atul Prasad for at least 40 minutes on Wednesday about Brajesh’s NGO and its association with the state government. Sources said the CBI team also asked Prasad to hand over the documents related to the department’s inspection of the children home where minor girls were allegedly raped by Brajesh and others.

Source also said the CBI team earlier quizzed Muzaffarpur district child protection unit assistant director Dibesh Kumar Verma, who had expressed his inability to provide any document to the investigation agency in the case.

Police sources said Swadhaar Grih’ is hardly 200 metres away from the children home where minor girls had allegedly been raped.