CBI official's transfer may impact investigation: Oppn

Patna: Opposition parties on Wednesday alleged that the transfer of a senior CBI official probing the Muzaffarpur shelter home sex scandal case may impact the investigation, a charge denied by ruling alliance partners JD(U) and BJP in Bihar.

"So, after Bihar Governor, CM Nitish also got CBI SP transferred," RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav tweeted, attaching a document, which he said was a CBI transfer order for JP Mishra, Special Crime Branch SP, who was part of the team probing the Muzaffarpur case.

Bihar Governor Satya Pal Malik was on Tuesday appointed as governor of Jammu and Kashmir. The RJD has been attacking Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar over some letters that Malik had written to him recently expressing concern over the case.

Devendra Singh, Superintendent of Police (SP) at Anti Corruption Bureau, Lucknow, has been given the additional charge of the SCB in Patna, as per the order copy tweeted by Yadav.

The CBI had last month taken over the inquiry into the alleged sexual abuse of girl inmates at government-funded shelter home at Muzaffarpur.

Opposition RJD-Congress combine alleged that the transfer was a result of political interference with a view to influence the probe. However, the ruling JD(U)-BJP alliance in Bihar rubbished the charge as a prejudiced view.

They also challenged the opposition parties to move court if they had problems with the administrative reshuffle within the probe agency.