Bihar Shelter Home Case: Main Accuse Brajesh Thakur Is Resting In Hospital Ward Not In Jail

Brajesh Thakur, the main accused in the Bihar’s Muzaffarpur sexual abuse case, is resting in a hospital ward inside jail and not the barracks. Thakur was arrested on June 2 and now weeks later, he was shifted to a hospital in the prison in Muzaffarpur and he remains there. When Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was asked the reason, he responded with another question and passed it on to an official.

“Why are you asking me this? Ask the secretary in charge of the social service, police departments. Please call the home secretary now,” Nitish Kumar said to a reporter at his press conference on the Bihar shelter home rapes.

This has been the case for almost last 40 days when he was shifted to jail from Sri Krishna Medical College and Hospital (SKMCH) in Muzaffarpur where he had spent almost three weeks after his arrest on June 2. The District jail superintendent, Rajiv Kumar Jha confirmed to ET saying, “We have lodged him in Hospital Ward Number 8 in jail. This is based on my conversation with SKMCH doctors who told me that Thakur is suffering from slip disc, severe diabetes and his blood pressure keeps on fluctuating and that is possibility of a heart attack – so he needs continuous observation. After all, who will be responsible if something happens to him in a barrack?”

Thakur, whose NGO ran many shelter homes, is one of the 10 people arrested for the rape, beatings and torture of girls, some as young as seven, over the past four years. The girls were drugged, raped, forced to sleep naked and scalded with boiling water by Thakur and his staff, a police charge-sheet has revealed.