Following this, Awasthi had put up a board for sale of the property.After complaints were lodged with Bhopal police on Friday, cops in Hoshangabad on Saturday started a fresh probe into the case of the missing boy Congress leader and state party spokesperson Shobha Oza had claimed that Awasthi’s NGO at Hoshangabad was blacklisted in 2017, but he was still getting support from the state government.“Awasthi had full support from the state government and a section of people in the ruling party. A police complaint was lodged by the administration in this regard last year, but the boy could not be traced.The owner of the shelter home, Awasthi has been charged with rape, sodomy and forced labour.Awasthi retired from the Army in 1990 and started an ashram for disabled children. Even after a complaint of sexual abuse in 2017, his organization continued to receive grants from the state,” Oza told TOI.Oza added that the collector who had blacklisted his NGO should have intimated the police.The hostel at Hoshangabad was shut down in 2017 after an adverse report by the district collector. BHOPAL: A day after deaf and mute inmates of a hostel in Bairagarh township of Bhopal complained of rape and physical abuse by the hostel director M P Awasthi, police have reopened the case about the mysterious disappearance of a teenaged boy from another branch of his shelter home at Hoshangabad last year.Sources said a 13-year-old boy had allegedly gone missing from the Hoshangabad branch hostel run for speechand hearing-impaired children at Hoshangabad on June 10, 2017.
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