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Alok Kumar is the Executive Editor of News18 regional language portals.

2 Girls from Govt-Run Patna Shelter Brought Dead to Hospital Hours After Complaints Lead to Police Raid

Police had raided the Asra shelter home on Saturday and arrested a 50-year-old man after receiving complaints from the inmates that he was forcing them to elope with him in exchange for gifts....
Alok Kumar-August 12, 2018,3:48 pm IST India
Bihar Shelter Home Rapes: As Brajesh Thakur Rests in Jail Hospital, CBI Demands Medical Report

Thakur had spent only five days in the ward allotted for him ever since he was arrested on June 3. He had complained of severe back pain only three days after being sent behind the bars. ...
Alok Kumar-August 9, 2018,9:18 pm IST India
Bihar Minister Manju Verma Resigns Over Shelter Home Rape Horror After Nitish Prod

Bihar social welfare minister Manju Verma tendered her resignation on Wednesday....
Alok Kumar-August 8, 2018,8:02 pm IST India
Brajesh Thakur, Accused in Bihar Shelter Rapes, Was Soon to Contest Election on Congress Ticket

When asked about his relations with Madhu, considered Thakur's close aide and absconding since police crackdown on functionaries of his NGO, Thakur expressed ignorance saying he doesn't know her. ...
Alok Kumar-August 8, 2018,2:32 pm IST India
Boy Missing From Illegal Shelter Home for 3 Years, Nitish Kumar Administration Sleeps on Complaint

The district magistrate had recommended the social welfare ministry to initiate action in 2016, but it preferred to sleep on the file instead. The child is still missing and the person in question, Lal Mohan Rai, is roaming freely in Ara....
Alok Kumar-August 8, 2018,7:44 am IST India
13-Year-Old 'Key Witness' in Muzaffarpur Case Climbed Tree to Escape Shelter Home

According to the FIR, the girl 'woke up at 4 in the morning, stepped out of her room and went near the boundary wall. She then climbed a tree and jumped to the other side'. ...
Alok Kumar-August 6, 2018,11:46 pm IST India
If Minister Has Any Connection, She Will Have to Go: Nitish on Bihar Shelter Home Scandal

Nitish Kumar said this in response to the Opposition demand for the resignation of Verma in the wake of sexual abuse of girls at a state-funded shelter home in Muzaffarpur....
Alok Kumar-August 6, 2018,3:46 pm IST Politics
Facing Heat Over Shelter Home Rapes, Nitish Kumar Sends Child Protection Officials Packing

The officers were from Muzaffarpur, Munger, Araria, Madhubani, Bhagalpur and Bhojpur districts. ...
Alok Kumar-August 5, 2018,4:45 pm IST India
Behind Brajesh Thakur's Crooked Smile: Anatomy of an Influential Rape Accused

Brajesh Thakur, muscleman by nature, has worked persistently to build his empire that comprises three newspapers that are run by his son and daughter and a network of shelter homes....
Alok Kumar-August 3, 2018,11:00 pm IST India
Child Rights Body Had Flagged Irregularities in Bihar Shelter Home in November

The commission noted that the rooms in the shelter were cramped which made the girls feel uncomfortable. It added that the minors complained about insufficient arrangement for their education and skill development....
Alok Kumar-August 3, 2018,4:24 pm IST India
Nitish Kumar Breaks Silence on Muzaffarpur Shelter Rapes, Says His Govt is 'Ashamed'

Nitish Kumar’s silence on the abuse of more than 30 minor girls prompted Governor Satya Pal Malik to offer advice. ...
Alok Kumar-August 3, 2018,2:17 pm IST India
'Incident Has Left Us Ashamed': Nitish Kumar Breaks Silence on Muzaffarpur Shelter Home Rapes

Speaking at the launch of 'Mukhyamantri Kanya Utthan Yojana', a scheme for welfare of girls, in Patna, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar said that the alleged abuse of girls "has left us with a sense of shame and guilt"....
Alok Kumar-August 3, 2018,3:59 pm IST India
Guv Advice on Shelter Home Rapes Makes Another Dent in Nitish Kumar's 'Sushasan Babu' Image

His tepid response to the horrific revelation of sexual abuse at a state-funded shelter home in Muzaffarpur marks a setback to Nitish Kumar’s ‘Brand Bihar’ narrative....
Alok Kumar-August 3, 2018,11:41 am IST Politics
Bihar Bandh Over Sexual Abuse of Girls in Shelter Homes; Tejashwi to Force Nitish to Break his 'Silence'

The workers of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), Congress and Hindustani Awam Morcha were also seen on the streets who shouted slogans against the Nitish Kumar government and sought his resignation....
Alok Kumar-August 2, 2018,12:20 pm IST India
11 Women Missing From Another Shelter Home in Bihar's Muzaffarpur, FIR Filed

Last week police filed the charge sheet against the owner of the NGO, Seva Sankalp Evam Vikas Samiti, Brajesh Thakur and ten others in this case....
Sudheer Kumar-July 31, 2018,1:32 pm IST India

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