Bihar: Fathers of two AES victims among 19 booked for protest
(WorldNews India)

The fathers of two children who died of acute encephalitis syndrome (AES) in Bihar´s Vaishali district are among 19 people named in an FIR for blocking traffic on the Muzaffarpur-Hajipur highway during a protest on June 18. Advertising The residents of Harvanshpur village were demanding water tankers for their village after seven children succumbed to AES over the period of a fortnight. The 19 have been booked under IPC Sections 147, 148 and 149 (rioting and unlawful assembly), 188 (disobedience to order), 283 (obstruction in public way), 353 (assault) and 504 (breach of peace). Rajesh Sahni, who lost his seven-year-old daughter to AES on June 9, said: `As...