A video allegedly showing the sexual harassment and assault of a minor girl at Mandar Parvat — a historic hilltop pilgrimage site in Banka district, Bihar — went viral on Friday, September 25, 2026, triggering a sharp political response from RJD leader and Leader of the Opposition Tejashwi Yadav, who called Bihar's law-and-order situation 'clinically dead' (mritpray) and demanded immediate arrests.

Banka, Jamui, Samastipur: a pattern Tejashwi won't let drop

Yadav framed the Banka incident not as an isolated flare-up but as the third point in a widening arc of crimes against minors. He pointed to an earlier incident in Jamui — where, he alleged, five of the remaining accused are still at large — and to a separate case in Samastipur, where he questioned whether the four accused received full sentences, reduced terms, or were let off on the basis of 'equations' (samikaran), a phrase that carries unmistakable caste-equation overtones in Bihar's political vocabulary.

The sequence matters. Opposition politicians in Bihar have long argued that the pace of police action — from arrest to conviction — shifts depending on the social identity of the accused. Yadav pressed the point directly: 'Why is justice decided only after seeing the caste background of those who commit crimes against minor girls?'

The direct attack on Bihar's Chief Minister

Yadav levelled his sharpest language at the state's top executive, accusing him of 'daily hollowing out the foundations of justice and a civilised society' through what he described as incompetence, impulsiveness, and unnecessary interference in police functioning. He sarcastically asked whether the Chief Minister would respond to the Banka accused only after checking their social media reels and caste — calling him a 'seventh-fail caste specialist' (satvin fail jati visheshagya) chief minister, a phrase designed to sting on both educational and caste-politics registers.

The research note flags that the post's characterisation of the current Bihar chief ministership is disputed and cannot be independently confirmed against verified records. NationPress reports Yadav's allegations as stated without independently confirming the official identity of the incumbent.

What the viral video shows — and what Yadav did with it

Yadav appended a note ('PS: audio ko mute aur video ko blur kiya gaya hai' — 'Audio has been muted and the video has been blurred') indicating the clip was sanitised before being shared. The move positions the post as political accountability rather than content amplification — the degrading material itself is suppressed, but the fact of its existence is placed firmly in the public record.

The questions Yadav posed are concrete and time-bound: when will the Banka accused be arrested? What happened to the five remaining Jamui accused? Were the Samastipur convicts given full or reduced sentences? Those unanswered questions are now on the record — and the state government will have to respond, or let the silence speak.