Begusarai: Reports of CBI probe against Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar in Muz-affarpur shelter home case have caused rumblings in the political circle.
RLSP chief Upendra Kushwaha who recently joined RJD led grand alliance was the first to demand chief minister Nitish Kumar’s resignation saying that, “Fair probe is not possible if he continues to hold the CM’s chair”.
The situation occurred after a lawyer Sudhir Kumar Ojha said that the court while hearing the petition of his client Ashwani Kumar has directed the CBI to examine the role of chief minister and others in connection with Muzaffarpur shelter home sexual abuse case.
Reacting sharply to development the ruling JD(U) on Sunday called “Forwarding of the petition to the CBI” a routine process and said that “the special POCSO court has not passed any order to the CBI to probe the role of Chief Minister in Muzaffarpur shelter home case”.
Talking to this newspaper JD(U) Spokesperson Neeraj Kumar said that, “No such order has been given by the special court. It has no power to pass such an order to the CBI. It is a routine process that whenever an accused moves a petition the court forwards it to the investigating agencies for consideration”.
On Sunday despite strong denial from the ruling party, Sudhir Kumar Ojha maintained that “Such an order was passed by the special POCSO court on Saturday and he will receive the copy of the order on Monday or Tuesday”.
The petitioner Ashwani Kumar is one of the accused and he was arrested in November last year for injecting sedatives to girls at Muzaffarpur shelter home.
