A minor boy was arrested on Monday for allegedly raping a 16-year-old girl, in Jariagarh village in Khunti district in Jharkhand, informed Khunti Superintendent of India Aman Kumar.
Following two back-to-back incidents of assault on minor girls in the state, BJP MP Nishikant Dubey on Sunday slammed the Hemant Soren s government in Jharkhand for the growing atrocities on Dalit girls and said that underage Dalits and tribal girls are being exploited and the government is sleeping.
Following the incidents of assault on minor girls in Jharkhand, Union Minister for Tribal Affairs Arjun Munda lashed out at the state government and said that the criminal cases are increasing in the state and the Hemant Soren is engaged in stabilising his government.
A team of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes on Saturday, taking suo moto cognisance, visited the Pandu area of Jharkhand s Palamu where nearly 50 Dalit families were allegedly driven out forcibly by the Muslim community.
A group of school students in Jharkhand s Dumka district tied their teachers to a tree and allegedly beat them up for giving them low scores which resulted in the students failing their exams.