Ex- mantri booked under Arms Act

Trouble seems to be mounting for JD( U) leader and former social welfare minister Manju Verma and her husband Chandeshwar Verma as a case has been registered against the couple under the Arms Act.

According to the police, the case has been filed against the senior ruling party leader and her husband following the recovery of 50 live cartridges from their Begusaraibased residence during the Central Bureau of Investigation ( CBI) raid last week.

Preliminary investigation in the case reveals that some of the cartridges recovered were of automatic rifles including an SLR.

“The case has been registered on the basis of the report provided by the CBI. We are currently trying to find the source of cartridges found from their house,” Bariarpur SHO Kumar Rajak reporters on Sunday.

The CBI had raided around 12 locations on Friday including Verma’s residences in Patna and Begusarai in connection with Muzaffarpur shelter home case.

Muzaffarpur was among 110 shelter homes where 34 minor girls were subjected to extreme brutality and raped by officials and employees of the facility.

According to 100- page report which was made public on Saturday by the state government, Muzaffarpur shelter home had been “running in a highly questionable manner along with grave instances of sexual abuse of violence. Several girls reported about violence and being sexually abused”.

The TISS in its audit report had pointed out sexual exploitation in almost all shelter homes in Bihar. Cheria Ranjit told