prostitution

Turmoil in Bihar house over forced prostitution in remand home.
Bihar assembly today plunged into turmoil over alleged torture of inmates of a women's remand home here by authorities to force them into prostitution.
As soon as the house assembled for the day, RJD's Shyam Rajak and others wanted to know the fate of their notice of adjournment motion to discuss the issue, published yesterday in a local Hindi daily.
As Speaker Uday Narain Chaudhary disallowed Rajak from speaking, agitated RJD members including Rajesh Singh, Akhtar-ul-iman, Sunil Kumar Pushpam and others trooped into the well raising slogans against the state government.
Slogans like 'Death to Nitish Kumar Government', 'Down With the Government of Batons and Bullets', were heard as the Speaker ruled that as per norms of parliamentary democracy no adjournment motion could be accepted during the budget session of the house.
"I am deeply concerned that the members are not adhering to parliamentary norms," he said requesting the RJD MLAs to return to their seats and began taking up questions despite the noise.
Replies by ministers to short notice questions were hardly audible in the din.
After nearly 20 minutes of slogan-shouting, the RJD MLAs returned to their seats following an assurance by the chair that he would announce his ruling on the notice after the question hour.