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Bihar horror: Chirag raps CM on ambulance rape
The New Indian Express Jeypore
|July 27, 2025
A 26-year-old woman with a dream to don the khaki appeared at a physical test for recruitment of Home Guards in Bihar's Gaya but was allegedly gangraped in an ambulance after she fainted during the test on Thursday.
The horrific incident drew widespread outrage as cracks appeared in the ruling NDA in Bihar when Union minister Chirag Paswan expressed "regret" over having to support the Nitish government, which he said had "surrendered" before criminals.
This story is from the July 27, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Jeypore.
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