Overview
- Family members, student groups, civil society and political figures rallied at Jantar Mantar on Sunday under the Bihar Nirbhaya Sangharsh Samiti banner.
- The parents allege police tried to pass the case off as a suicide and denied sexual assault, renewing calls for a judicially monitored investigation.
- A Bihar Police Special Investigation Team is probing the case, and the state has requested a CBI inquiry, with no public conclusion so far.
- Police say medical examinations did not confirm sexual or penetrative assault, while a forensic test on the student’s clothes reportedly detected semen traces.
- The student, a NEET aspirant from Jehanabad, was found unconscious at a Patna girls’ hostel on January 11 and died after days in a coma.