In a major development, Bihar's Social Welfare Minister Manju Verma whose husband, Chandrakant Verma, was accused of having alleged links with the key mastermind of the Muzaffarpur shelter home rapes, tendered her resignation on Wednesday.
Her resignation comes a couple of days after Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar assured that the culprits behind the alleged incident would not be spared, and would be put behind the bars.
Manju, lately, has been in the eye of the storm, after the opposition parties demanded her resignation after her husband's alleged involvement surfaced.
Verma allegedly used to visit the shelter home quite frequently, spending hours in the girls' room in the shelter home. Both, the minister as well as her husband had denied the allegations.
Although her party, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) stood beside her, one of her party colleagues, Gopal Narayan Singh, had demanded her resignation.
The issue of alleged sexual exploitation of more than 40 girls at a Muzaffarpur shelter home was uncovered more than a month ago by the Mumbai-based Tata Institute of Social Sciences. Later, 11 employees of the child shelter home were arrested.
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