(With inputs from agencies)

NEW DELHI: Bihar's social welfare minister Kumari Manju Verma — whose husband has been accused of having links with the alleged mastermind of the Muzaffarpur shelter home rape case — on Wednesday tendered her resignation.Manju Verma met chief minister Nitish Kumar and handed over her resignation to him, sources in the chief minister's office said.Shortly after submitting her resignation, the minister said that the decision to resign was taken following furore created by the media and the opposition. "I have full faith in CBI and Judiciary, I am sure truth will be out and my husband will come out clean," she added.Verma also said that the call records of conversation between her husband and Thakur be made public. "Call records of accused Brajesh Thakur should be made public, we will then see who all he used to talk to," she said.An MLA from Cheria-Bariarpur constituency in Begusarai district since 2010, Verma has been in the eye of the storm after jailed child protection officer’s wife alleged that minister’s husband Chandeshwar Verma frequently visited the shelter home’s upper floor (where girls lived) after asking the accompanying officers to stay on the ground floor.The resignation came a day after CM Kumar said that he will not spare anyone found involved even if it is minister Verma."She (Manju Verma) has denied her involvement in the case. A CBI probe is underway. Anyone found guilty, even the Ministers, will be sent to jail. No one will be spared," Nitish Kumar had said on Tuesday.What appears to have precipitated her quitting is the media reports that examination of mobile phone details of key accused Brajesh Thakur showed that he had spoken to her husband 17 times from January to June this year.Speaking to media from a prison van in the court compound at Muzaffarpur, Thakur admitted that he used to speak to the minister's husband, Chandeshwar Verma, but it was "on political issues"Verma had, however, been defending herself by maintaining that her husband had visited the shelter home only once and that too in her presence.She had also said that she was being targeted because she belonged to the Kushwaha caste, an OBC group.No action against the minister in the wake of the shelter home horror episode had been bringing a bad name for the CM as well his government across the country.Opposition leaders have alleged that Manju Verma was aware of her husband's frequent visits to the Muzaffarpur shelter home where 34 minor girls were raped.Opposition parties and a section of BJP have demanded Verma’s resignation over the alleged involvement of her husband in the case and delay on her department’s part in lodging an FIR after receiving the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) social audit report, which indicated sexual and physical abuse of minor girls run by NGO Sewa Sankalp Evam Vikas Samiti.Last week, senior BJP leader CP Thakur had demanded that Verma should resign owning moral responsibility for the alleged sexual abuse of minor girls at a shelter home in Muzaffarpur.The former Union minister said Verma of the JD(U) should take a call on the demand for her resignation by opposition parties, keeping in view the "lapses on part of the social welfare department" on which the scandal has been blamed."The scandal points at huge lapses on part of the state social welfare department. How could the department be unaware of such a huge racket taking place right under its nose?" Thakur asked."There are also complaints of similar irregularities having taken place at other organisations controlled by the department," Thakur said.She had also been a minister in the NDA government headed by Nitish Kumar from JD(U) quota.