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Congress workers connected Monday (January 19, 2026) staged a protestation successful Patna against the Bihar Government, alleging lapses successful the probe into the death of a NEET aspirant successful the State capital.
A ample fig of the Congress workers, led by AICC in-charge of Bihar, Krishna Allavaru, and the party's State president Rajesh Ram, gathered adjacent the Income Tax Crossing, holding placards and raising slogans against Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and the police. They besides burnt an effigy of the CM.
The 18-year-old aspirant from Jehanabad, who was preparing for the aesculapian entranceway examination, was recovered unconscious successful a girls' hostel successful Chitragupt Nagar successful Patna earlier this month. She died astatine a backstage infirmary connected January 11, 2026 aft remaining successful coma for respective days.
Her household has alleged that she was sexually assaulted and accused authorities of attempting a cover-up. The constabulary person constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the incident.
Speaking to reporters, Mr. Allavaru, said, "The instrumentality and bid has wholly collapsed successful the State. The authorities is patronising criminals. Everybody knows that radical don't get justness successful Bihar due to the fact that of the highhandedness of the police. Why was an FIR not lodged successful the archetypal 3 days? People privation justness for the miss and her household members... Why person the accused not been arrested truthful far?" “Constituting an SIT to probe the substance volition not lick the purpose,” helium said, alleging that specified teams are formed to "suppress the facts and support the influential".
Echoing a akin view, Rajesh Ram said, "The government's volition is not to lick the case. The authorities and the constabulary are protecting the accused. We volition combat for justness to the miss and her household members." Deputy Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary had connected Sunday (January 18, 2026) asserted that those progressive successful the decease of the NEET aspirant "will not beryllium spared".
"The constabulary person already constituted an SIT to probe the incident. The DGP himself is monitoring the investigation... Those progressive successful the decease of the NEET aspirant volition not beryllium spared," Mr. Choudhary, who holds the Home Department portfolio, had told reporters.
Her decease led to monolithic protests successful Patna, pursuing which the constabulary arrested the proprietor of the girls' hostel. The archetypal findings of the doctors concluded that she was besides suffering from typhoid.
However, the post-mortem study of the miss concluded that "sexual unit can't beryllium ruled out" arsenic a crushed down the incident. Despite her household alleging intersexual assault, constabulary maintained that aesculapian reports and CCTV footage ruled retired the possibility.
"Doctors recovered nary signs of intersexual assault," Patna Police had claimed successful a connection issued connected January 13.
Family members of the deceased connected Sunday (January 18, 2026) alleged that enactment should beryllium taken against the warden of the girls' hostel, doctors, who had initially termed it a lawsuit of suicide, and the constabulary unit who "tried to screen up" the case.
"Warden of the hostel, doctors and definite policemen are hand-in-glove. Action indispensable beryllium taken against them... Hostel authorities had offered america wealth for a compromise... Even constabulary unit had threatened us, asking america not to talk to the media astir thing regarding the case," the deceased's begetter told reporters connected Sunday (January 18, 2026).
