Muzaffarpur shelter home horror: Brajesh Thakur, two others acquitted in SC/ST case
The Hindu
Brajesh Thakur acquitted in Bihar shelter home abuse case due to lack of evidence, remains in jail for other convictions.
Brajesh Thakur, who allegedly sexually assaulted several girls at his shelter home in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district, was acquitted along with two of his associates by a special SC/ST court on Thursday (January 2, 2025) owing to "lack of evidence."
Thakur and his associates — Shaista Praveen alias Madhu and Krishna Kumar — will, however, remain in jail as they have been convicted by a Delhi court in 2020 and sentenced to life imprisonment in other cases related to the gruesome incidents that shook the conscience of the nation in 2018.
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All three, serving life imprisonment for sexually and physically assaulting girls at the shelter home, were brought here from Delhi's Tihar jail amid heavy security.
The affairs at the shelter home run by Seva Sankalp Aur Vikas Samiti, the non-profit helmed by politically-connected Thakur, came to light after the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) filed a report with the Bihar's Social Welfare Department, detailing horrifying sexual abuse cases.
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