<p class="title">A court here on Friday sent four persons, including an official of the state social welfare department, to CBI custody till September 24 in connection with the shelter home sex scandal.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Special POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses) judge R P Tiwari passed the order after the four accused - Rosy Rani, Guddu, Vijay and Santosh - were produced at his residence by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) which had arrested all of them a day ago.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Rani was posted as an assistant director in the department during 2015-17 and has been accused of not taking any action despite having been informed about the abuse of inmates at the shelter home.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The others were employed by Brajesh Thakur, the prime accused in the scandal, who headed the NGO that ran the shelter home.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Before being produced in the court, the four were taken to a hospital here for medical examination.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Thakur was arrested by police in June, soon after an FIR was lodged by the department upon report of sexual abuse in social audit conducted by Mumbai-based Tata Institute of Social Sciences. The case was handed over to the CBI in July.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Medical reports have confirmed that more than 30 girls lodged at the shelter home had suffered sexual abuse.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The shelter home has since been sealed, Thakur's NGO blacklisted and its registration cancelled while all the girls lodged there have been shifted elsewhere.</p>.<p class="bodytext">State social welfare minister Manju Verma had also resigned in August following reports alleging close links between Thakur and her husband Chandrashekhar Verma.</p>
<p class="title">A court here on Friday sent four persons, including an official of the state social welfare department, to CBI custody till September 24 in connection with the shelter home sex scandal.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Special POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses) judge R P Tiwari passed the order after the four accused - Rosy Rani, Guddu, Vijay and Santosh - were produced at his residence by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) which had arrested all of them a day ago.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Rani was posted as an assistant director in the department during 2015-17 and has been accused of not taking any action despite having been informed about the abuse of inmates at the shelter home.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The others were employed by Brajesh Thakur, the prime accused in the scandal, who headed the NGO that ran the shelter home.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Before being produced in the court, the four were taken to a hospital here for medical examination.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Thakur was arrested by police in June, soon after an FIR was lodged by the department upon report of sexual abuse in social audit conducted by Mumbai-based Tata Institute of Social Sciences. The case was handed over to the CBI in July.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Medical reports have confirmed that more than 30 girls lodged at the shelter home had suffered sexual abuse.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The shelter home has since been sealed, Thakur's NGO blacklisted and its registration cancelled while all the girls lodged there have been shifted elsewhere.</p>.<p class="bodytext">State social welfare minister Manju Verma had also resigned in August following reports alleging close links between Thakur and her husband Chandrashekhar Verma.</p>