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Ex-magistrate to probe allegations of assault on women at Mumbai shelter
Updated On: 26 November, 2012 10:37 PM IST | | PTI
The Bombay High Court on Monday appointed a former magistrate to monitor the functioning of a suburban home after a committee appointed by it, to look into the sexual and verbal assault on women living there, said in its report that the shelter was in a "pathetic and sub-human condition" and was worse than a jail.
The committee, which submitted its report today, accused the shelter officials of dereliction of duty.u00a0
A division bench of Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice Nitin Jamdar has also directed for the chief metropolitan magistrate to instruct four to five magistrates to start recording the statements of the victims under Section 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code, so that it can be used as evidence against the accused.
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