Overview
- Bijapur administration constituted a four-member committee led by the additional collector to investigate the reports, with findings due in seven days.
- Officials said the panel includes the Assistant Commissioner of Tribal Development, the District Education Officer, and the District Hospital’s civil surgeon.
- Education Minister Gajendra Yadav told the Assembly that two students were not hostel residents and a third left the facility during Diwali in 2025 and did not return.
- Congress MLAs alleged a cover-up, claimed the girls were sent home after the pregnancies surfaced, saw their adjournment motion disallowed, and staged a walkout.
- Preliminary accounts estimate the pregnancies at about four to five months, sharpening scrutiny of safeguards in state-run hostels serving tribal communities.