Articulate segments of Muzaffarpur have been at the the forefront of all anti-establishment mobilisation, which makes their silence over the atrocities in a shelter home in the town puzzling. Could it be that if those accused of horrific crimes belong to dominant castes and if the victims belong to the vulnerable groups, then the middle classes become mute, asks Mohammad Sajjad.
Sources in police headquarters in Patna told rediff.com on Thursday that the CID has filed the charge sheet in the Chief Judicial Magistrate of Hajipur court in Vaishali district.
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The Patna High Court on Tuesday granted bail to former member of Parliament and Janata Dal United leader Lovely Anand, who was recently sentenced to life for the murder of Gopalganj District Magistrate G Krishnaiah in 1994. On October 3, Additional District and Sessions Judge Ramshreshtra Rai had sentenced Lovely Anand , a former MP from Vaishali, to life along with three other accused for inciting a mob to lynch Krishnaiah.
A Hajipur court has issued non-bailable arrest warrants against the 10 persons accused of lynching 10 suspected thieves in Bihar's Vaishali district, police sources said on Saturday.
IG (Headquarters) Anil Sinha will conduct a simultaneous inquiry into administrative lapses leading to the brutal killings, they said, adding that the government has decided to bring to justice the perpetrators of the crime.
The incident comes days after a mob gouged out the eyes of three young men who had snatched away a motorcycle in Nawada district of the state.
Over 40 people died in rain-related incidents, majority of them in Uttar Pradesh, while incessant rainfall in Bihar left the streets of state capital Patna and other areas waterlogged and residences of at least two ministers marooned.
Swirling waters inundated 12 districts in the state.
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The Bihar government has launched a massive programme to bring over 23 lakh out-of-school children to educational institutions in the state.
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the commission, in a letter to Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, said: 'They were not caught red-handed, in fact the scene of theft was nearly five kilometres away from the scene of mob violence.'
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Arrested BSEB 'topper' Ruby Rai has told the Bihar police about the links between her father and toppers scam 'kingpin' Bachcha Rai. M I Khan/Rediff.com reports from Patna.
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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Sunday ordered a high-level administrative inquiry into the burning alive of six members of a family in Raghopur block in Vaishali district, which falls in the constituency of leader of the opposition Rabri Devi.
The fire broke out at around 7.30 am in the godown and spread in other rooms on the ground floor, he said.
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Official sources said a bag containing gun powder, sulphur, iron nails and pins was sighted at the lock-up on Wednesday morning.
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District Magistrate Rachna Patil told PTI on Friday, "We are looking after the matter."
With the rise in level of the Ganga, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has expressed apprehension of further rise in water level by Monday in view of release of water from Bansagar dam as flood-like situation prevailed in the state.
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The BSF shot him dead when he pointed the toy pistol at them in Raghopur. Former Chief Minister Rabri Devi is in the fray.
'The horrific episode of January 18 in Muzaffarpur, Bihar, is quite different from what happened in Muzaffarnagar, UP, in September 2013. The Akhilesh Yadav-led administration in UP and riot-mongers among our political formations need to learn lessons from the response of the state and society in Bihar's Muzaffarpur,' says Mohammad Sajjad.
