PATNA: At least four minor girls fled from a shelter home named ‘Asha Kiran’ running inside the highly secured premises of a premier school under Patliputra police station area in the city after midnight on Saturday.The premises along with the shelter home is covered by multiple CCTV cameras and also has guards.This is perhaps third incident in the state capital where inmates from shelter home had fled raising concern over the way they are kept and security of the shelter homes.Police sources said girls had uprooted iron grill of one of the windows on the first floor of four-storey shelter home and used multiple pieces of clothes to make a rope long enough to reach ground for escaping. Patna SSP Manu Maharaaj said that one of the girls was brought from Mumbai on October 14, one was brought from children home (balika grih) at Ara in Bhojpur on November 4 while the rest two were handed over by railway authorities on November 6.According to the details on website named www.sistersofnotredamepatna.org, the shelter home for girls was inaugurated on May 18, this year.SSP said the shelter home is being run by sister Alka and at present 40 girls were living in it.“The girl who was brought from Mumbai is native of Araria while one brought from Ara is of native of Buxar. Residences of two handed over by railway authorities were yet not known,” he said.Maharaaj said girls had used screw drivers to remove screws of iron grill fixed on window.“Their movements were captured in CCTV cameras installed premises and police were quizzing shelter home authorities to know from where girls had procured equipment to escape,” he said.Surprisingly, school authorities did not allow TOI correspondent to enter inside premises to talk to any authorities running the shelter home to seek details or keep their side over the incident.The shelter home is funded by state government to keep rescued or abandoned minor girls in the same way as like that of government shelter home (balika grih) run by Brajesh Thakur in Muzaffarpur where 34 out of 44 minor girls were allegedly raped.TOI tried to contact child welfare committee assistant director (Patna) Dilip Kumar Kamat multiple times on the incident but his official cellphone was switched off and he did not respond on his private number. Both the numbers were on social welfare department website.

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