Patna,(BiharTimes): The alleged rape of a teenaged school girl by (now suspended) RJD MLA of Nawada, Raj Ballabh Prasad Yadav, has a very puzzling element.

Though it was the DIG of Central Range, Shalin, who first brought the case to light more than 10 days back after an FIR was lodged on February 9, yet all the three persons involved in it and are still at large––apart from Raj Ballabh––are women. They are Sulekha Devi, the lady who took the young girl to the MLA’s house, her elderly mother, Radha Devi, and daughter, Choti Kumari.

In the same way, the first medical report, which does not mentioned specifically whether the girl had been raped or not, has been given by a lady doctor of Nalanda Sadar Hospital.

It was the second report prepared by a team of five doctors which gave a partially positive report.
It is again a woman judge of a Biharsharif court that turned down the police’s plea on Monday to issue property attachment order against Raj Ballabh.

The investigating officer of the case, Mridula Kumari, had approached the court of Additional District and Sessions judge (I) Rashmi Shikha on Monday, requesting the latter to issue order of immediate attachment of his property as the MLA from Nawada was evading arrest. She directed the police to move the court again within 30 days.

However, the court agreed to issue proclamation notice against the MLA facing charges of kidnapping and rape of a minor.

Earlier, the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) team was forced to retreat on Sunday afternoon without collecting evidence from the house of Raj Ballabh at Pathra Englishpar village under Nawada Muffasil police station.

They prevented the team from opening the locked room of the MLA’s house on the plea that the police team had no search warrant.

The FSL team, headed by Biharsharif Women police station sub-inspector Mridula Kumari. Mridula admitted that she did not have a search warrant.

The victim, incidentally, is appearing in the on-going Class X examination of Bihar School Examination Board.

Ironically, no women’s group of Bihar has taken up the case in a big way nor has the State Women’s Commission played enough role. Even the opposition parties and its women wings have not taken up the cause of the victim forcefully.

It is on Tuesday that the former deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi who raised questions against a district court of Nalanda and had urged the Patna high court to take cognizance of the matter.