New Delhi: A Delhi court on Tuesday sought CBI's reply on a plea filed by Brajesh Thakur, prime accused in the alleged sexual and physical assault on several girls in a Muzaffarpur shelter, claiming that testimonies of witnesses in the case were not reliable.

Additional Sessions Judge Saurabh Kulshreshtha, who deferred for the third time pronouncement of judgment in the case till January 20, directed the CBI to file its reply within two days. The plea said the CBI had on January 8 submitted a status report in the Supreme Court wherein it said that the some of the girls of the shelter home, who were thought to be allegedly murdered, were alive.