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NEW DELHI: Following criticism by opposition parties over the Muazaffarpur shelter home rapes, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday sought to assure that the guilty won't be spared and made an appeal to not focus on just the "negative" aspects."The culprits will not be spared at any cost. There will not be a lenient attitude in investigating the matter. If you still want to abuse me, feel free to do it like those people who are up against me. Kindly, look at the positive side of it. I am assuring you, both the culprits and the accomplices will be put behind the bars," Kumar was quoted as saying by news agency ANI.An annoyed chief minister slammed the people targeting him and his government over the case. "If all you want to do is abuse me, then go ahead," Kumar added.Kumar's remark came in the backdrop of a protest against his state government organized by RJD leader and Kumar's arch-rival Tejashwi Yadav in the national capital yesterday.On Saturday, in a show of opposition unity, leaders from various parties including Congress president Rahul Gandhi and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal joined the protest organized by Tejashwi in Delhi's Jantar Mantar."Today, as a Bihari, I hang my head in shame. What has happened in this case, shows that it is not 'jungle raj' (misrule) but 'rakchhas raj' (devil's rule) in the state," Yadav had said.CPI leader D Raja, Bihar's former chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi, CPM general secretary Sitaram Yechury, former MP Sharad Yadav were other prominent leaders who took part in the protest.Breaking his silence over the shelter home incident two days ago, Nitish said he was ashamed over the incident in Muzaffarpur and stressed on the need to develop institutional mechanisms to prevent such crimes from recurring."We have always said that the guilty would not be spared and deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi has said on the floor of the assembly that we would ourselves like the CBI probe to be monitored by the High Court," he had had.The Muzaffarpur shelter home incident had surfaced in a social audit conducted by Mumbai-based Tata Institute of Social Sciences. An FIR was lodged by the state social welfare department in June, which led to the arrest of 10 people. Medical reports have confirmed sexual abuse of more than 30 girls formerly lodged at the shelter home, which has since been sealed. The case has been handed over to the CBI.