Bihar minister Kartik Kumar, who is an accused in a 2014 kidnapping case, resigned on Wednesday night amid protests by the Opposition, officials said.
Kartik Kumar, an RJD MLC, became the State's Law Minister in the new Nitish Kumar government. He resigned hours after being moved to the lesser significant Sugarcane Department.
The resignation has been accepted and forwarded to the governor, said a statement from the Chief Minister's Office.
