PATNA: Close on the heels of minor girls’ rape in a government children home (balika grih) at Muzaffarpur , two persons related with an NGO were arrested at Chhapra in Saran district on Saturday for their alleged involvement in the rape of a state government short stay home (SSH) resident in the town.An FIR was lodged against the NGO ‘Nari Utthan Kendra’, which runs the SSH at Lalkothi near Dharmanath Mandir under the Chhapra Town police station area. The SSH training-cum-rehabilitation officer, Saroj Kumari, and security guard Ram Swaroop Pandit were arrested. NGO owner Randhir Prasad, who is also an accused in the case, was absconding.Saran DM Subrat Kumar Sen said 26 women were shifted to another SSH in Siwan district on Saturday. He said Women Development Corporation MD-cum-chairman N Vijaya Laxmi had received complaints about sexual exploitation of women at the SSH and formed a team, which inspected it on July 10 and found the allegations true. The report was submitted on Saturday.“The information about one woman’s rape was found true in the report received on Saturday after which action is being taken against the NGO,” the DM said.Town police station SHO Rajeev Nayan said the rape survivor was pregnant. He said Pandit used to rape the woman while Saroj and Randhir are accused of keeping the matter under the wraps. “The woman is mentally unstable, though the report does not mention it,” the SHO said.In June first week, a social audit report of Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, had indicated sexual exploitation of minor girls at the government’s children home at Muzaffarpur run by NGO Seva Sankalp Ewan Vikas Samiti. Its owner Brajesh Thakur and nine others were arrested in the case. All the 44 residents of the children home were shifted to other districts.

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