Court seeks CBI reply on plea by accused in Muzaffarpur case

New Delhi, January 16

A Delhi court has sought the CBI’s reply by January 18 on a plea filed by Brajesh Thakur, prime accused in the alleged sexual and physical assault on several girls in a Muzaffarpur shelter home, claiming that the testimonies of witnesses in the case were not reliable.

Additional Sessions Judge Saurabh Kulshreshtha was hearing the plea which claimed that the case set up by the prosecution witnesses was “false, fabricated and concocted”.

The court had earlier deferred for the third time pronouncement of judgment in the case till January 20 after the petition was filed before it.

The plea said the CBI on January 8 submitted a status report in the Supreme Court wherein it said that the some of the girls of the shelter home, who were thought to be allegedly murdered, were alive.

Thakur’s petition, filed through advocate PK Dubey, has claimed that the prosecution witnesses in the shelter home sexual assault case were not trustworthy as the investigation into the allegations of murder were based on their statements. These facts were relevant and essential for a fair trial, it said. “It is pertinent to mention that the investigation into the allegations of murder were based on the statements made by the prosecutrixes (rape survivors) who are prosecution witnesses in the case,” it said. — PTI