Overview
- Violent demonstrations over an alleged NEET paper leak in Patna on July 22 escalated into assaults on party members and damage to vehicles, which local police say prompted widescale crackdowns.
- CPI(ML) Liberation MLA Sandeep Saurav was arrested and sent to judicial custody on July 24 on charges of allegedly inciting the Patna protests, officials reported.
- Police and district authorities detained dozens of protesters across multiple districts, with officials saying more than 114 were apprehended on Thursday and at least 32 arrested on Friday.
- The police released photographs of over 100 suspected miscreants and said it is keeping 117 identified individuals under strict surveillance to identify and prosecute those who damaged public property or attacked officers and journalists.
- AISA called a statewide Bihar bandh for July 25 that produced street blockades, school closures and heavy deployments of forces, and the state government ordered sensitive handling of protests while warning against misinformation and outside agitators.