I am being harassed as I belong to 'weaker' Kushwaha caste: Manju Verma

Former Bihar minister Manju Verma, facing trial in an Arms Act case after recovery of ammunition from her house during a CBI raid in connection with the Muzaffarpur shelter home sex scandal, alleged Saturday that she was being harassed as she is a woman and belong to the "weaker" Kushwaha caste.

Verma, who had surrendered on November 20 after the Supreme Court rapped the Bihar government for its failure to secure her arrest after three months of registration of the case, gave vent to her outrage before journalists at the court of Majhaul Sub-Division.

She and her jailed husband Chandrasekhar Verma were presented before the court of the Majhaul Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Prabhat Trivedi, which extended the couple's judicial remand by 14 days.

Asked where she had been for three months, she countered, "I want to ask Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi, Leader of Opposition Tejashwi Yadav and his ally and former CM Jitan Ram Manjhi, why am I being harassed. What is my fault?"
Meanwhile, Chandrashekhar Verma, who was also produced before the court, pleaded with the media to "stop dragging our name" in the shelter home sex scandal, saying, "Even the CBI has not named us as accused."