patnabegusarai although the state government and the police headquarters had come under tremendous pressure following the supreme courts strong reprimands over delay in the arrest of former social welfare minister kumari manju verma no one expected the manner in which she surrendered before the court on tuesdayshe turned up at the majhaul subdivisional court in begusarai district donning a burqa which was flashed by the news channels a twoterm mla from cheria bariarpur assembly constituency in begusarai district the fall of manju verma 49 has come fast after the supreme courts adverse observations as its fallout her status as an absconder from the law was declared publicly through an ishtahar notice and the court also issued an order regarding attachment of her property which was duly implemented even as it is her fall that is being talked most her rise from homemaker to legislator she was elected to the state assembly in 2010 and 2015 had caught the attention of all cm nitish kumar also took note of her koeri caste status among the intermediate category of backward caste groups and catapulted her to the post of social welfare minister to cash in on this political aspect later indeed the upswing of her career graph had been consistent she had risen in the ranks owing to the goodwill and connections of her fatherinlaw sukhdeo mahto in the jd u there are quite a few secondterm women mlas but only a few of them could become a minister manju hit the headlines for wrong reasons after shiba kumari singh wife of jailed child protection officer cpo ravi kumar raushan of muzaffarpur childrens home made a startling claim on july 25 she alleged that vermas husband chandeshwar verma used to visit the muzaffarpur shelter home oftenthough manju had denied the charge against her husband the things went from bad to worse for her after it came to light that chandrashekhar used to often talk to brajesh thakur prime accused in muzaffarpur shelter home rape case over the phone before her first election on the jd u ticket from cheria bariarpur in 2010 manju was associated with ljp and rjd in begusarai district while her children were in school she had also spent a few years in patna running a beauty parlour her fatherinlaw sukhdeo mahto was elected from the same constituency in 1980 on a cpi ticket but he was quick to read the mood of changing times he found and established connections with cm nitish which led to the jd u fielding manju from cheria bariarpur in 2010 drawing on the votes of the kushwaha caste verma defeated ljp candidate anil kumar mahto in a close contest and repeated the feat in 2015 however it was her husband chandrashekhar who had chaperoned her during her political journey her political adversaries alleged that chandrashekhar would accompany her to official functions and also act as minister