All India Students Association (AISA) activists staged demonstration in Patna on January 10, 2011 demanding justice for Rupam Pathak and immediate release of journalist Navalesh Pathak. Rupam was arrested in Purnia on January 4, 2011 for stabbing BJP MLA Raj Kishore Keshri to death in full public view.
Activists of the CPI-ML(Liberation) and All India Progressive Women Association (AIPWA) took out a procession in
They also demanded a judicial probe into circumstances forcing a woman Rupam Pathak to kill a ruling BJP MLA from Purina Raj Kishore Keshri and condemned Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi for calling her a blackmailer.
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Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi and Bihar BJP president Dr C P Thakur felt that there was a conspiracy behind the murder of party MLA Raj Kishore Keshari in Purnia. Talking to reporters in
On Rupan Pathak’s charge she had made six months ago on alleged sexual harassment against the slain MLA, they said the police decided to close the case in the absence of sufficient evidence.
“We have even come to know that she had retracted her statement under Section 164 of CrPC later," they remarked.
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