PATNA: Police have moved a local court for procuring arrest warrants against Madhu Devi and Dilip Kumar Verma in connection with the alleged sexual abuse of minor girls at the government children home on Saha Road in Muzaffarpur The matter had come to light recently following the release of a social audit report of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.Muzaffarpur SSP Harpreet Kaur said on Friday while Madhu was the in-charge of the NGO named Seva Sankalp ewan Vikas Samiti which was running the children home, Dilip was the chairman of district children welfare committee.Nine people, including NGO owner Brajesh Thakur, were arrested earlier in the case.Madhu’s arrest will prove crucial as she is believed to have vital information, the SSP said and added one of the survivors had named Dilip as her tormentor.Of the 44 minors living at the children home, 14 were shifted to Madhubani, 14 others to Mokama and the rest 16 to a children home at Pataliputra Colony in Patna after the incident came to light. The children home office was sealed by police on June 2.Kaur said a medical board consisting of three Patna Medical College and Hospital doctors was constituted to conduct fresh medical examination of 14 survivors. “Our special investigation team along with a team of the Crime Investigation Department recorded statements of the 14 victims in Mokama on Friday. They were being taken to Patna for medical examination,” the SSP said.When asked, Kaur said police were yet to record the statement and conduct the medical examination of the 17 women and three minor girls who were shifted from a short-stay home in Muzaffarpur district to Begusarai as it was also run by the tainted NGO. “After completion of initial legal formalities of the children home case, police will focus on the short-stay home residents,” Kaur said.

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