Overview
- The state home department notified a downgrade of Z‑plus cover on June 4 and reassigned protection for Lalu Prasad Yadav and Rabri Devi to the Bihar Special Armed Police; visuals on Saturday showed empty guard posts outside 10 Circular Road.
- RJD leaders and family members refused the revised detail and asked remaining personnel to leave, with party workers and supporters then standing guard at the bungalow as a public protest.
- Bihar officials describe the action as a routine threat‑perception review that replaces central-level teams with BSAP and Patna police guards, while the RJD calls the change politically motivated and vengeful.
- The review also changed protection for other family members: Tejashwi Yadav kept Y+ cover, Tej Pratap’s Y‑category was reduced, and Misa Bharti received a smaller detail, and there is a factual dispute over whether guards were sent away by the family or left after deployment orders were cancelled.
- A separate administrative order has allotted 10 Circular Road to a state minister and given Rabri Devi 15 days to vacate, a step that deepens the political standoff and could prompt legal or on‑the‑ground confrontation in coming days.