CBI conducts search at Bihar shelter home
Patna, Aug 11 : A CBI team along with officials from the Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) on Saturday conducted a search at a shelter home in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district where 34 minor girls were raped, police said.
The CFSL team has collected scientific evidence to speed up the probe into the case.
Ahead of filing an application in the Muzaffarpur court to take Brajesh Thakur, the main accused in the case, on remand for interrogation, the team opened sealed rooms and conducted the searches for the first time, a district police official said.
"The teams opened sealed rooms and conducted search to collect more evidence in the case. All the activities carried out by the teams were videographed for record," the official added. The shelter home was sealed by the district administration after Thakur was arrested along with nine others.
Additional security forces have been deployed in and outside the shelter home as the teams were likely to conduct their operations for hours.
Thakur has spent only five days in the Muzaffarpur Central Jail since he was arrested in the case on June 2.
"He has been staying in the medical ward of the jail on health grounds and managed to avoid staying in the prisoners ward," the police said.
The Patna High Court is monitoring the ongoing CBI investigation into the case.
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Kerala govt to declare as ''dead'' people missing in Wayanad landslide
Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 15 (PTI): The Kerala government has decided to declare as ‘deceased’ the people who went missing in the devastating landslide in Wayanad last year which will help provide compensation to their families.
The decision comes as a huge relief to the kin of people who were reported missing in the disaster.
As per a government order issued on Tuesday, local, district and state level committees will be formed including revenue department officials to examine the list of missing people.
The local level committee includes the panchayat secretary, village officer and station house officer of respective police stations. The committee will prepare a list of missing people and submit it to the District Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) for scrutiny.
The DDMA will examine the list and forward it to the state-level committee with its suggestions. The state level committee, comprising additional chief secretary (home) and principal secretaries of revenue and local self-government, will examine the list and forward it to the government, the order said.
The government will subsequently issue an order declaring them as dead and providing ex-gratia to their close relatives.
According to official record, 263 people were dead and 35 people were reported missing in the landslides that occurred on July 30 last year. The order directs the local level committee to closely examine the FIRs filed in connection with the missing people in the respective police stations.
The tahsildar or sub-divisional magistrate should conduct a detailed enquiry about the missing person and the findings will be published on the official website and government gazette.
A 30-day period will be given for filing any objections, after which the list of missing people will be published and death certificates issued to their immediate relatives, the order said.
