Two women dead at Bihar shelter home

Patna: The police in Bihar said on Sunday that two women from a shelter home died in hospital here.

The women, aged 40 and 18, from the Asra shelter home here died on Friday night at the Patna Medical College and Hospital.

The cause of their death is not immediately known.

Neither the police nor the Social Welfare Department were informed of the incident. A police team, along with department officials, visited the shelter home located in the city’s Rajiv Hagar area and interrogated the staff.

At least 34 minor girls were raped at a shelter home in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district. The case came to light in July when the state’s Social Welfare Department filed an FIR on the basis of a social audit by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.

Twenty-four girls were rescued from the shelter home in Uttar Pradesh’s Deoria last week after one of them told the police that they were being sexually abused.