CBI probe into Bihar shelter home rapes only on state request: Rajnath Singh

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday said a CBI probe will be ordered into the rape of over 40 minor girls in Bihar’s shelter home once the Centre receives the state’s request

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday said a CBI probe will be ordered into the rape of over 40 minor girls in Bihar’s shelter home once the Centre receives the state’s request.

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh speaks in the Lok Sabha during the Monsoon session of Parliament, in New Delhi on Tuesday, July 24, 2018. (PTI Photo)

Calling the incident in a government-run shelter home in Muzzafarpur “a serious matter”, Singh set the criteria for ordering the Central Bureau of Investigation probe.

The Home Minister was responding to a demand made by Supaul’s Congress MP Ranjeet Ranjan during the Zero Hour in the Lok Sabha.

Ranjan said the incident has brought shame to the country.

The Congress MP also gave example of the Swiss Squash player Ambre Allinckx who refused to participate in the World Junior Squash Championship in Tamil Nadu’s Chennai citing the safety concerns for women in the country.

On Monday, her husband, Rajesh Ranjan aka Pappu Yadav, demanded the CBI probe into the rape incidents at the shelter home.