Patna: Chief minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday called the Muzaffarpur shelter home sexual exploitation case an aberration, and asked the media to not just highlight negative things.

"Please focus on the positives also. One or two negative things have happened and you all are running with it. Whoever does any wrong will go to jail and those trying to save them will also be behind bars," Nitish told reporters in Hindi at a function here to launch the Satat Jivikoparjan Yojana to provide alternative livelihoods to families that were earlier engaged in the country liquor and toddy trade.

Nitish's appeal came a day after RJD leader Tejashwi Prasad Yadav organised a protest against the Muzaffarpur case at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi in which Congress president Rahul Gandhi, Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and several other leaders including D. Raja of the CPI, socialist leader Sharad Yadav and former chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi participated.

The Opposition leaders slammed and questioned the Nitish government over the Muzaffarpur shocker, in which at least 34 minor girls were drugged, tortured and raped. Some of the girls were also made to undergo abortion.

The chief minister, who had said on Friday that the Muzaffarpur incident had left him shamed and in pain, iterated on Sunday that the guilty would not be spared.

"I am not going to spare anybody. I have never compromised on anything. If you want to hurl abuses at me, go ahead. Kaise kaise logo se gali dilwa rahe hai (look at the kind of people you are getting to abuse me)," Nitish added, without elucidating who he was referring to.