Four girls who were allegedly abused at Bihar’s Muzaffarpur shelter home and were shifted to Mokama shelter home, along with three other girls reportedly fled the shelter home on the wee hours of Saturday.
Confirming the incident, Patna District Magistrate Kumar Ravi told ANI, “A missing report for the seven girls has been registered. We’re trying to locate the girls.”
Bihar: Seven girls have gone missing from a shelter home in Mokama. Kumar Ravi, District Magistrate Patna says, "A missing report for the seven girls has been registered. We're trying to locate the girls." pic.twitter.com/50NEqa8phe
— ANI (@ANI) February 23, 2019
According to a report published in the Indian Express, the Patna Police said that the incident took place at around 2 am on Saturday. The grill of the shelter home was allegedly found cut open. Moreover, a police officer reportedly accused the shelter home management of not cooperating, adding that they worked in a secretive manner. The officer even suggested that the administration did not also allow women representatives from the government to meet girls in the shelter home.
The Supreme Court is currently monitoring the Muzaffarpur case. A case was registered after 32 girls complained of sexual abuse. The shelter home has been closed since last May. As per an investigation by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), several girls were sexually and physically abused at 17 shelter homes across the Nitish Kumar-ruled state.
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