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Supreme Court orders CBI probe against all shelter homes in Bihar -Amit Anand Choudhary

-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed CBI probe against all erring shelter homes and their owners for allegedly subjecting the children to torture and sexual abuse after noting that state police investigation was not up to the mark. A bench of Justices Madan B Lokur, S Abdul Nazeer and Deepak Gupta directed the CBI to probe into all allegation of torture and sexual abuse of children...

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Audit: Institutional homes in Bihar indulged in some form of abuse -Ambika Pandit

-The Times of India NEW DELHI: “The truthfulness of the phrase violence begets violence seemed to be unfolding before our eyes.” This statement in a report of one of the inspection teams tasked with auditing 110 institutional homes in Bihar, including the one in Muzaffarpur, summed up its shock at the evidence of physical, sexual and emotional abuse unearthed across these homes. The state sponsored audit report by Koshish, Tata Insititute of...

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Buses bring rural Bihar closer to Delhi -Shiv Sunny

-Hindustan Times Bus journey takes lesser time, is more punctual and on most occasions, one can find a seat just before the vehicle departs. This is in stark contrast to the Bihar-bound trains which are often delayed by as much as 24 hours, needs a ticket to be booked months in advance and on which landing a Tatkal ticket requires monumental effort and ample luck. New Delhi: An impatient Chandan Singh does...

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Editors Guild Slams Patna HC Gag Order on Muzaffarpur Shelter Abuse Case

-PTI The guild noted that the court, instead of protecting media freedom, has issued an order that has effectively curbed it. New Delhi: The Editors Guild of India today condemned a Patna high court order restraining the media from reporting on the probe into the Muzaffarpur shelter abuse case and appealed to its and Supreme Court’s chief justices to review the decision. In a statement, the media body said such restrictions on reporting...

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TISS report points to sexual, physical abuse of inmates at 14 other shelter homes in Bihar -Amarnath Tewary

-The Hindu The 100-page report, which The Hindu is in possession of, gives explicit details of how girls, boys and adults have been subjected to “dreadful details of physical violence, sexual abuse and mental harassment.” Patna: The seven-member team of Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), which had exposed sexual and physical exploitation of minor girls at Muzaffarpur shelter home in its social audit report submitted to the State Social Welfare Department...

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