Maneka Gandhi expresses concern over sexual exploitation in shelter home

At the launch of the sexual offender registry portal by Home Minister Rajnath Singh in New Delhi on Thursday, Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi  (pictured) raised the issue of sexual exploitation of inmates in a shelter home in Muzaffarpur, Bihar. Gandhi suggested there was a failure on the part of local authorities to monitor crimes in the shelter homes. A Janata Dal (United) and Bharatiya Janata Party coalition government, led by Nitish Kumar, rules Bihar. While Gandhi is a cabinet minister in the Modi government, her son Varun, a Lok Sabha member from Sultanpur, has been out of