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RJD leaders, booked under POCSO Act, given bail

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Press Trust of India Gaya (Bihar)
Last Updated : Jun 20 2018 | 6:00 PM IST

A number of RJD leaders, including its sitting MLA and a former MP and a minister, booked for forcing a minor gang rape victim to narrate her ordeals and video graphing her in breach of POCSO Act, were granted bail today by a city court.

All the RJD leaders, who faced the charges of breaching the minor victim's right of privacy in violation of the POCSO Act and interfering with the police probe in the case were the members of the party's fact finding team, sent to Gaya by Bihar's former Deputy Chief Minister Tejaswi Yadav on June 16.

The RJD leaders, who were given bail today by Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Sanjay Kumar included RJD national general secretary and former state minister Alok Mehta, local MLA Surendra Yadav, former MP Ramji Manjhi and the state president of the party's women's wing Abha Lata, besides three

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First Published: Jun 20 2018 | 6:00 PM IST

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