A special court on Monday convicted NGO owner Brajesh Singh Thakur and 18 others, including nine women, of committing or abetting sexual assault on 44 minor girls at a shelter run by the former in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district. The court pronounced Thakur guilty of rape and gang-rape under the IPC and aggravated penetrative sexual assault under the Pocso Act.

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