PATNA: Within couple of hours of Union home minister Rajnath Singh’s statement inside parliament that central government was ready for CBI inquiry into the ghastly Muzaffarpur government children home (balika grih) case if recommended by state government, Bihar DGP KS Dwivedi said Bihar police itself is capable to investigate the entire case.A press conference was called at the state police headquarters at around 2pm on Tuesday where the DGP, in reply to questions of media persons, said there was no requirement of inquiry by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the case. Social welfare department principal secretary Atul Prasad was also present in the presser.It was a social audit report of Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS, Mumbai) which mentioned sexual and physical abuse of minor girls living that the home. The children home was run by NGO named Seva Sankalp Ewam Vikas Samiti and its owner Brajesh Thakur and seven other female office bearers were arrested soon after FIR was lodged with the Women police station in Muzaffarpur on May 31.Later child protection officer Ravi Kumar Raushan and district children welfare committee (CWC) member Vikas Kumar were also arrested for raping the minor girls kept at the home. Another CWC member Dilip Kumar Verma was still evading arrest. One of the arrested women staff Kiran Devi is also accused of forcing the girl for unnatural sex.Till now, medical reports indicate rape with 29 out of 44 girls who were living at the home, while report of eight were yet to be received by police. Medical reports of five minors were not confirmed rape while medical examination of two girls were not conducted due to their illness.“According to the document seized from the children home by police, four girls out of 471 girls who had reached the home over the period of time after it became functional in 2013, were shown to be had fled in December 2013. At present, no further records about those girls were found and police were trying to trace them,” DGP Dwivedi said clarifying media reports of six missing girls. He also said involvement of 11 persons have surfaced before police till now.“Three girls were shown to have died over the period of time at the home, of which two breathed their last in a hospital,” DGP said. He said while one of the girls died in July 2015, two died in June last year.In context of digging the children home premises on Monday to find trace of human remains, the DGP said that it was yet not proven if one of the girls was murdered and buried there.Couple of the rape survivors had recorded their statement before magistrate that one of the girl inside the home was thrashed mercilessly after she had denied to obey the words of the children home staffs following which the digging was taken up after court’s permission.He also said that Muzaffarpur police, during the course of investigation, traced another missing girl from the home who turned out to be living a married life.“TISS report also mentioned about violence inside children home at Munger, Bhagalpur and Motihari and FIR was lodged in all these cases and Crime Investigation Department (CID) is monitoring all the cases,” he said.“The police headquarters, through CID, has issued advisory to all district to closely monitor such homes,” the DGP said.Dwivedi also said that psychologist from Bangalore, AIIMS-Delhi and some other places were roped in who were already involved counselling the rape victims.

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