The Begusarai police is all set to arrest former Social Welfare Minister Manju Verma’s husband Chandrashekhar Verma in connection with a case filed against him with Cheria Bariarpur police station last month for possessing illegal arms and ammunitions. An order to arrest him was issued by Begusarai Police Superintendent on Friday.
The SP moved following a directive by the Supreme Court which found the case against Verma serious and a division Bench directed the police to interrogate him.
The arms and ammunitions had been recovered during a search in the residential premises of the couple whose name figured in the infamous Muzaffarpur shelter home rape case. The Minister had to resign when the name of her husband cropped up and the CDR of his phone revealed that he was in constant touch with rape case main accused Brajesh Thakur who was running the shelter home. It was also alleged that Verma had been visiting the shelter home and spending time there.
Manju Verma had stoutly denied the allegations and claimed that her husband visited the shelter home only once that too along with her when she went there in her capacity as social welfare minister.
The sensational case is being investigated by the CBI and now the apex court has decided to monitor it. The Supreme Court also took notice of the firing in remand home at Purnea in which two people died. The bench of Justice Madan B Lokur and Justice Deepak Gupta expressed surprise as to how weapon reached the remand home.