11 MISSING FROM SECOND SHELTER HOME

Muzaffarpur, July 31: Few days after the Central Bureau of Investigation registered a case against the Muzaffarpur shelter officers and employees, another case was registered on Tuesday against key accused, Brijesh Thakur, after 11 women went missing from another shelter home owned by him in the city.

Thakur is the prime accused in Muzaffarpur’s shelter home case, where more than 30 minor girls were sexually assaulted over a period of time.

Taking cognizance of the matter, the CBI on July 29 registered a case against the officers and employees of the shelter home.

Eleven employees of the shelter home were also arrested in this regard.

Sources said that Brajesh Thakur, also owned a newspaper each in Hindi, English and Urdu which barely published a few hundred copies but are alleged to have claimed inflated circulation figures to gain greater slice of the governments advertisement revenue.

Police sources here said that Pratah Kamal was published from the same premises which housed the shelter home and it hardly circulated a few hundred copies daily and this fact had been mentioned in their report.

Police sources also said during their investigation they were surprised to find a staircase connecting the shelter home to the newspaper office.