The family resides in a thatched house in Natwar Semariya village of Bihar's Saran district and is in a state of shock ever since the news of their son's arrest reached them.
Even as attacks on non-Gujaratis continue in the western state over the alleged rape of a 14-month-old baby girl by a migrant worker from Bihar, the mother of the rape accused has urged the people of the state to punish her son if he is guilty, but not target other Biharis, who are earning their livelihood there.
The family resides in a thatched house in Natwar Semariya village of Bihar's Saran district and is in a state of shock ever since the news of their son's arrest reached them. The father is a farm labourer and the family barely manages to live hand-to-mouth.
"We have no knowledge of what has happened to him or what has he done there. Some of our neighbours told us about the incident. Someone may have incited my son to do such a thing, but if he has done anything like that, he should be punished for it," the accused Ravindra's mother Ramawati told Zee Bihar-Jharkhand. She claimed her son was a minor and retarded and said other people should not be targeted because of him.
According to the family members, "The accused had gone to Gujarat some time ago with few of his friends to add to the family's income. He had not even informed his family when he had left and they had only recently come to know that he was working in some factory in Gujarat."
Meanwhile, several people from Bihar who were residing in Gujarat have returned to their native state, narrating their woes to their families here. Patna's Manish Kumar, who reached here on Gandhidham-Kamakhya Express on Monday said people from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh were being threatened to leave their homes and jobs. "Many colonies and factories were attacked multiple times and people were told to go back home. The situation is very tense. I had to come home for the festivals, but I preponed my visit because of the situation there," he said.
Bihar CM Nitish Kumar had said that top officials of both Bihar and Gujarat were in touch over the condition there and the Gujarat government was keeping an eye on the matter.
However, Bihar's Leader of the Opposition Tejashwi Prasad Yadav attacked the Gujarat government saying, "We won't let the RSS goons from Gujarat to break the nation." He also sought an apology from Gujarat CM Vijay Rupani for calling people from other states as "migrants".
Owaisi Speak
- AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi accused the BJP govt in Gujarat of failing to stop the “exodus” of Hindi-speaking migrant workers
- He said it is has a responsibility to ensure their safety. “The entire responsibility lies on the BJP govt,” he said.
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