Live: Tejashwi Yadav at Muzaffarpur protest says there is ‘reign of devil in Bihar’
Responding to RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav’s call for a candle march to protest the “heinous institutional mass rape in Muzaffarpur”, many Opposition leaders extended support
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Rahul Gandhi: RSS is one side and the entire Opposition is on the other side. India will not tolerate this kind of attack on hits culture, history and institutions
Rahul Gandhi: If Nitish Kumar even has a pinch of shame in him, he should take action against the culprits
Rahul Gandhi: We have come here to speak for each and every woman of the country
Congress President Rahul Gandhi at the Muzaffarpur protest in Delhi, reports ANI
Tejashwi Yadav launches scathing attack on Nitish Kumar
“We have come to Delhi because my chacha’s (Nitish Kumar) soul has not woken up yet to these crimes. He says there is a rule of law in Bihar, if that is so, they did Nitish Kumar ask the police to remove Brajesh Thakur’s name from the FIR.”
“The FIR was registered afte two months. Why? I am ashamed of being a Bihari. In Bihar, it is not ‘jungle raj’, but ‘rakshas raj’,” says Tejashwi emphatically.
RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav: The culprits have to be sent to jail. We demand death penalty for the culprits
Congress President at the protest
Congress President Rahul Gandhi joins protest at Jantar Mantar
Sharad Yadav: A commission must be set up under a judge to investigate shelter homes around the country
Sharad Yadav: BJP is going around saving cows, but our mothers and sisters are being crushed under their brutal hands
Yechury: 'NDA se beti bachao'
CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury: If we want to save India, then we will have to remove Modi from the Centre and Modi-supported Nitish from Patna
Trinamool Congress MP Dinesh Trivedi: We are ashamed that our country is identified with rape incidents
D Raja: BJP hatao, Desh Bachao
D Raja: I want to ask Nitish Kumar if he has any morality. How can you align with the BJP?
CPI MP D Raja: Nitish Kumar should not continue as the CM of Bihar. He has no moral authority to do so
Delhi CM: BJP's leaders troll women journalists and even BJP's own leaders are not safe.
Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal demands completion of investigation in three months and death penalty for the culprits
A number of women listening to the speakers
Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal with RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav, reports ANI
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has joined the protest
Students from DU who have joined the protest to demand the resignation of Bihar CM Nitish Kumar
Protesters listening intently
Kanhaiya Kumar: In the garb of a CBI enquiry, the Nitish Kumar government wants to suppress the truth
Student leader Shehla Rashid: Why is it that only one party is seen defending and supporting the rape accused
Jitan Ram Manjhi demands the resignation of Bihar CM Nitish Kumar
Former Bihar CM and HAM leader Jitan Ram Manjhi demans President's rule in Bihar
Jantar Mantar comes alive after a brief period when NGT had banned protests at the site. It is a place which gives voice to the voiceless
Former JNU president Kanhaiya Kumar has joined the protest
RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav at the protest
CPI MP D Raja, Sharad Yadav and SP MP Tej Pratap Singh join the protest
RJD MP and daughter of Lalu Yadav, Misa Bharti, joins protest. She has demanded severe punishment for the culprits
Thousands of protesters have gathered at Jantar Mantar
Tejashwi Yadav on Muzaffarpur rape cases: Even after the report of Child Commission was out no action was taken, reports ANI
A number of protesters have come from Patna to participate in the protest
A large number of police have been deployed for the march
Former Chief Minister of Bihar Jitan Ram Manjhi's Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular) is a part of the people's protest
This is a people's protest
Support pours in for Bihar Opposition leader Tejashwi Yadav's candle light march in Delhi
Opposition leaders including Congress President Rahul Gandhi, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Trinamool Congress have extended support to Tejashwi Yadav on the issue.
Bihar deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi criticises Tejashwi Yadav
Instead of showing solidarity, Bihar deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi decided to criticise Tejashwi Yadav for his decision to hold a candlelight march in New Delhi on Saturday to protest the Muzaffarpur shelter home mass rapes.
"The state government has handed over investigation of the Muzaffarpur shelter home case to CBI and the Supreme Court, having taken suo motu cognisance, is determined to bring the guilty to justice. This leaves no scope for politics," said Sushil Modi, in a tweet.
State bandh called by the Left in Bihar on August 2 to protest Muzaffarpur rapes a success
A shutdown called by the Left parties in Bihar on August 2 to protest the rape of 34 minor girls at a shelter home in Muzaffarpur district had hit rail and road traffic.
The state-wide shutdown was backed by opposition parties including the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), Congress, Hindustani Swam Morcha, Samajwadi Party and Lokrantrik Janata Dal.
Bihar Chief Minister remained silent until August 3; comments after SC rap
After a protracted silence, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar, on August 3, said, “We are ashamed of Muzaffarpur. The accused should be punished.” He then insisted that the case, which is being probed by the CBI, should be monitored by the High Court.
His silence did not go unnoticed. Questioning his silence, Tejashwi Yadav had penned an open letter to the Chief Minister
There were reports that Nitish Kumar maintained a studied silence because Brajesh Singh Thakur, the kingpin of the Muzaffarpur balika grih (shelter home) rape case, is close to the present state government.
It is pertinent to note that the Nitish Kumar government had issued a tender to Brajesh Thakur in Patna on the same day that the police registered a case against him and his NGO in Muzaffarpur.
Leader of Opposition in the Bihar assembly, Tejashwi Yadav has termed Nitish Kumar’s silence as “criminal”, but the bigger question is how police, government, bureaucracy everyone failed for so long and how Brajesh managed to deceive the whole system and exploit girls supposedly under his ‘care’, for years.
Supreme Court takes suo motu cognizance in Muzaffarpur shelter case on August 2
A second case gets registered against Brijesh Thakur on July 31
Police filed a fresh case against the main accused in the rape of 34 minor girls in a shelter home, Brajesh Thakur, after 11 women were reported missing from another of his shelter home in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district.
An FIR was filed against Thakur's NGO Sewa Sankalp Evam Vikas Samiti on a complaint by Dinesh Kumar Sharma, an official of Social Welfare Department
Muzaffarpur's house of horrors: A timeline
The shelter home-run by the main accused Brajesh Thakur came under the scanner after a social audit report by TISS which reported large scale sexual exploitation of the inmates. Medical examination of the girls, mostly minors, confirmed sexual exploitation of at least 34 of the 44 girls.
The police registered a case against 11 people including Brajesh Thakur and Madhu Kumari on May 31. All of them have been shifted to short-stay homes in Madhubani, Patna and Mokama.
The case was registered on May 31 under Section 120(B) (criminal conspiracy), 376 (outraging the modesty of a woman), 34 (common intention) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and section 4, 6, 8, 10,12 of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO).
Madhu Kumari has been absconding since the police registered a case on May 31. Ironically, She was one of the three “ati vishisht (very special)” women recommended by the district administration for the Zila Mahila Samman in October 2015.
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