Shelter home case: Court tells CBI to probe Nitish

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar may face a CBI probe in connection with Muzaffarpur shelter home case.

Senior lawyer Sudhir Kumar Ojha said, “the special POCSO court has ordered the CBI to examine the role of Bihar Chief Minister and others after a petition was filed by one of the accused in case.”

He said one of the accused, Ashwani Kumar, who was arrested in November last year for injecting sedatives to girls at the Muzaffarpur shelter home in his petition had requested the court to order investigating agencies to “probe close links of main accused Brajesh Thakur with top politicians of the state including the Bihar Chief Minister”.

In his four-page petition, Kumar said that “if CBI investigates Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, principal secretary of the social welfare department Atul Prasad, and former Muzaffarpur district magistrate Dharmendra Singh and other officials then their role can also exposed in the case”.

The petition and court’s observation in the case may cause rumblings in political circles here. Sources said that the Opposition may use the issue as an agenda against the NDA in the elections. be