In Muzaffarpur, the rescued girls refer to a Hunterwala Uncle torturing them. This cannot be allowed in a place meant for their care and protection. Shelter homes have to be visited at night, not in the daytime, when they are full of office staff who can intimidate residents. We visited the Nari Niketan in Delhi after 8pm and spent a night there. That’s how the truth came out in Nirmal Chhaya too, where we found most of the 100 inmates were mentally ill, screaming or crying. They had one doctor who gave them heavy doses of drug. There were no recreational facilities, food was bad. It is horrifying and won’t change without a social audit and follow-up by government on the basis of findings.