{"id":301142,"date":"2018-08-03T11:50:39","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T11:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=301142"},"modified":"2018-08-03T11:50:39","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T11:50:39","slug":"bihar-nitish-kumar-breaks-silence-on-mass-rape-at-muzaffarpur-shelter-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/bihar-nitish-kumar-breaks-silence-on-mass-rape-at-muzaffarpur-shelter-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Bihar: Nitish Kumar breaks silence on mass-rape at Muzaffarpur shelter home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-301143 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/nitish-kumar-300x291.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"305\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/nitish-kumar-300x291.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/nitish-kumar-433x420.jpg 433w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/nitish-kumar.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 305px) 100vw, 305px\" \/>Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday broke his silence on the horrific mass-rape at the Muzaffarpur shelter home.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He said, \u201cIt is a shame for all of us of what has happened in Muzaffarpur. The CBI is conducting an investigation and no leniency will be shown to anyone, all those found guilty will not be spared\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Nitish&#8217;s reaction over the case came just hours after RJD leader and his former deputy Tejashwi Yadav questioned the CM&#8217;s silence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Nitish Chacha, I will force you to break your criminal silence on the most horrifying Institutional mass rape of the world that happened right under your nose. How can you afford to sleep as a CM wherein 34 innocent girls hv been repeatedly raped by ur close aides?&#8221; tweeted by former deputy Tejashwi Yadav.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">At least 32 minor girls were sexually assaulted at a shelter home, which was run by Brajesh Thakur&#8217;s NGO at Bihar&#8217;s Muzaffarpur<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The investigation has been handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) by the State government.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday broke his silence on the horrific mass-rape at the Muzaffarpur shelter home. He said, \u201cIt is a shame for all of us of what has happened in Muzaffarpur. The CBI is conducting an investigation and no leniency will be shown to anyone, all those found guilty will not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":301143,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2915,2089,2014],"tags":[842,4012,435,3938,2684,1893],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301144,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301142\/revisions\/301144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/301143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}