The Jamui Clip Created a Case Families Never Filed

Jamui police filed a POCSO case on Monday after a roadside assault video of two Class 10 students went public. The boy and the girl had not given the station a complaint through Sunday.

A clip shot by someone in the group that stopped them did that job instead.

The Video Reached Police Before Any Complaint Did

The assault took place on Saturday, September 19, 2026, between 6 pm and 7 pm on a hilly stretch near Madwa Pahad, about 3 km off the Jamui-Lakhisarai road. Jamui Superintendent of Police Vishwajeet Dayal said the two students, friends from the same coaching class, had gone toward the hillside after class and were returning on a scooter.

Dayal told reporters the matter was two days old, and that neither the boy nor the girl had come to police through Sunday. On Monday, once the footage spread, officers traced the pair from a vehicle registration number visible in the clip and recorded their statements. Jamui District Magistrate Naveen Kumar directed the station to act on the videos.

Jamui police station then registered Case 428/26, dated September 21, 2026, under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act and matching sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita. The FIR did not name any accused. Investigators built the list from the footage.

FROM SATURDAY EVENING TO MONDAY

1. September 19, 2026: A group stops the two Class 10 students near Madwa Pahad between 6 pm and 7 pm as they return on a scooter.
2. September 20, 2026: No complaint has reached Jamui police from the boy or the girl by the end of Sunday, the SP later said.
3. September 21, 2026: The clip spreads, police trace the students, file Case 428/26, form an SIT, and take three people into custody.

That sequence is the case. The crime happened on a public road on Saturday. The file opened on Monday because a phone, not a parent, brought it in.

What the Jamui Clips Show

Police and the students’ statements describe a stop that began as questioning. Members of the group asked whether the two were classmates and whether their families knew they were together. One man slapped the boy and told them to call home. The pair were forced off the scooter.

The footage, recorded by someone in that group, shows the boy seized by his shirt collar. Another man grabs the girl by the neck and lifts her as she resists. She can be heard pleading, saying they are children and promising they will not come back. The boy tries to pull her free. When they attempt to ride away, the group chases them.

Additional Director General KS Anupam said the police have the names of seven to eight people from the incident and will check their records. Officers will also look at patrolling on that stretch. Munger range Deputy Inspector General Rakesh Kumar said the three people first taken in are from Jamui district.

Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi called the clip deeply disturbing and said everyone visible in it should face charges under POCSO. He asked why a girl was not safe on a public road at 7 pm, and why, if the assault was on September 19, the accused were not already in custody when he posted on Monday morning.

The video from Jamui, Bihar is deeply disturbing.

Two Class 10 students were stopped on a road. Harassed. Humiliated. Molested. A young girl, hands folded, begged to be let go while goons groped her and dragged her away.

Who gave these men the right to behave like this? This is…

— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) September 21, 2026

The group behaved as if a boy and a girl on one scooter were a public offence they were entitled to try. They filmed the humiliation. That recording is now the state’s main evidence, and the reason the two students have a police file at all.

Three in Custody, the Rest Still Sought

Dayal said around seven people have been identified from the video and that three have been arrested, with raids continuing. He also said the person seen behaving indecently with the girl has been identified and that police are working to hold him. Anupam described those first taken in as minors and said two of the arrested are aged between 17 and 18. Kumar said two of the suspects in the case were minors.

A special team is led by Jamui Sub-Divisional Police Officer Deepti Monali. The FIR cites POCSO sections 8 and 12, covering sexual assault and sexual harassment of a child, and Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita sections 74, 76 and 3(5), covering force used to outrage a woman’s modesty, force used with intent to disrobe, and acts done with common intention. Those counts sit among a wider laws that protect women and girls.

THE JAMUI CASE ON PAPER

Dayal declined further personal detail about the two students, saying some facts should stay private. Both live in Jamui town. Police have asked the public not to circulate the footage.

WHAT WE KNOW

• The trigger: Police acted after the video spread, not after a complaint from the two students.
• The file: Case 428/26 is under POCSO sections 8 and 12 and BNS sections 74, 76 and 3(5).
• The first haul: Three people are in custody and around seven have been identified from the clip.

WHAT IS UNCONFIRMED

• The rest of the group: Police have not said the main accused is in custody.
• Who filmed it: One member of the group recorded the assault; it is not public whether that person is among the three held.
• Ages of all accused: Anupam and Kumar have spoken of minors among the suspects; a full age list has not been released.

Until those names and ages are on the charge sheet, the public case is still a video with three people held and a hunt for the others on it.

Why Bihar’s Minister Called It Isolated

Rural Development and Information Minister Shrawon Kumar spoke to reporters in Patna while the SIT was already running raids. He said the government would inquire thoroughly and that he would speak to the district magistrate and the SP. He also placed the assault in a line of stray crime rather than a collapse of order.

The world is not entirely free of crime. Sporadic incidents keep happening. The government has its eye on these sporadic incidents. Those who commit such acts cannot escape in Bihar. Strict action has been taken against them in the past as well.

Shrawon Kumar, Rural Development and Information Minister, speaking in Patna

JD(U) state president Umesh Kushwaha used the same register. He said the government is sensitive when an isolated incident, a chutput ghatna, occurs, and told people to remember Bihar before 2005, when the Rashtriya Janata Dal last ran the state on its own and, in his telling, people were afraid to leave home. He said whoever committed this assault would be taken into custody, “no matter how big a criminal they may be.”

Minister Jama Khan said Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary had taken cognisance and that no one found guilty would be spared. Jamui MLA Shreyasi Singh called the episode a shame on society and said she was satisfied with the administration’s first moves, including the three arrests. Local MP Arun Bharti called it a cause for concern and rejected the charge that the clip proved Jungle Raj.

Those lines arrived after the video, not after Saturday evening. The ministerial vocabulary, sporadic, isolated, chutput, is doing political work the FIR does not need. The FIR already calls it a child-sex offence.

Jungle Raj Changes Hands in Patna

Leader of the Opposition in the Bihar Assembly Tejashwi Yadav went straight at the chief minister. He called the episode tragic and said the government had no shame. He reminded reporters that Choudhary had spoken of girls moving freely at night, and said girls are not safe in Bihar by day or by night. He alleged that police try to hush such cases, and that gunda-raj has taken hold in the state.

Tej Pratap Yadav, his brother and president of Janshakti Janata Dal, said the government bore full responsibility and threatened a hunger strike if the chief minister did not answer. Congress spokespersons in Delhi folded the clip into a Jungle Raj charge against the NDA government in Patna.

That phrase used to travel the other way. For years the BJP and its allies used Jungle Raj as shorthand for the Lalu Prasad and Rabri Devi years before 2005. Kushwaha reached for that memory on Monday. Yadav now uses gunda-raj against a BJP chief minister. The vocabulary did not need new facts. It needed a video.

The sharper objection sitting under that noise is simpler. A group of men appointed themselves the court for two Class 10 students on a scooter, then recorded the punishment. Sharing that recording is how the rest of the country met the two students. It is also how their faces moved far beyond Jamui.

New Delhi Sets a Seven-Day Clock

National Commission for Women chairperson Vijaya Rahatkar took up the case on her own and wrote to the Bihar director general of police. The letter asked for an FIR, for every accused to be identified from the footage, and for an impartial probe on a fixed timetable. It also asked for security and legal help for the victims and for action to stop the clip circulating. Rahatkar sought a detailed action-taken report within seven days.

The Bihar State Commission for Women moved in parallel. Chairperson Apsara said she had spoken to the Jamui district magistrate, who told her the assault was on the Lakhisarai-Jamui border on the evening of September 19, and that those involved had been identified. She said she would write to the SP and wanted the evening’s tally of arrests.

Parliament already wrote a 2005 child rights commissions law so national and state bodies could take up crimes against children without waiting for a private complaint. The Jamui file is a test of that machinery, because the private complaint never came. The commissions are now the second set of adults, after the police, to enter a case that two Class 10 students did not file.

Sharing the Clip Is Now a Separate Offence

Anupam said police have flagged 32 accounts that circulated the video of the minors. He listed 13 Facebook accounts, 12 Instagram accounts and seven X accounts for takedown. He warned that spreading a clip that shows a minor’s face is itself an offence under POCSO and Section 74 of the Juvenile Justice Act.

ACCOUNTS FLAGGED FOR THE CLIP

• Facebook: 13 accounts identified for takedown.
• Instagram: 12 accounts identified for takedown.
• X: 7 accounts identified for takedown.

That second file, against the people who passed the footage on, is the state’s most countable Monday action besides the three arrests. A National Commission for Women review of cyber harm has already pressed for tighter POCSO rules on online abuse and for platforms to answer when assault videos of children move. Jamui is that problem in one district: the same recording that forced the FIR is also the recording that put two minors on thousands of phones.

Raids were still on for the person police say is seen assaulting the girl in the clip. The National Commission for Women has asked for a written report within seven days.

Disclaimer: This article is news reporting on a live criminal investigation and related political statements. It is informational only and is not legal advice, a finding of guilt, or a substitute for court papers. Readers who need advice about a similar incident, a POCSO complaint, or the circulation of a child’s image should consult a qualified criminal lawyer or the local police child welfare officer before acting. Arrest counts, charges and the status of accused persons reflect official statements available on September 21, 2026, and may change as the SIT files further papers.