Amid broad spread media outrage and concern from the legal fraternity throughout the nation, the gangrape survivor from Araria in Bihar, who was jailed on the orders of a judicial magistrate while providing her declaration about the occurrence, was given bail on Friday. The Araria Chief Judicial Magistrate Anand Kumar Singh declined bail to 2 social workers, who had actually helped the woman and were jailed with her on July10
The 22- year-old survivor was apparently gang-raped on July 6 after which she sought help from members of Jan Jagran Shakti Sanghtan (JJSS), an Araria-based NGO, with whom she was used. An FIR was lodged at a women’s police station on July 9, implicating 5 males for sexually assaulting her. Only one of the men has actually been arrested up until now.
On July 10, when the survivor was taping her declaration before the Judicial Magistrate at the Araria District Court, she had requested that Tanmay Nivedita and Kalyani Badola from the JJSS, who had ac