AIMIM candidate for Dumri bypoll booked for 'pro-Pakistan' slogan raised during Owaisi's rally
Giridih (PTI): AIMIM candidate for Dumri by-election has been booked for alleged 'pro-Pakistan' slogan raised during the party chief Asaduddin Owaisi's public rally in Jharkhand's Giridih district, a senior official said on Thursday.
Giridih Deputy Commissioner (DC) Naman Priyesh Lakra told PTI that the FIR was lodged at Dumri police station against AIMIM candidate Abdul Mobin Rizvi, as he was the organiser of the programme, one Muzaffar Hasan Nurani and others.
The action came after a video went viral on social media, where it was heard that someone from the audience raised 'Pakistan Zindabad' slogan during the speech of Owaisi on Wednesday
"It came to our notice that the slogan of Pakistan Zindabad was raised from the audience during the speech of AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi. After observing the video recorded during the speech by the video observation team, it was found that the act is a violation of the model code of conduct and an attempt to disturb communal harmony," according to an official statement issued by the Giridih district administration.
The flying squad, constituted for the Dumri by-election, lodged the FIR at Dumri police station under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code and the Representation of the People Act, it stated. Police are on the hunt for the person who raised the slogan.
Dumri Block Development Officer (BDO), Anwesha Ona, who is also a member of the flying squad, said that the alleged video footage was examined with the footage of their videographers' team before lodging the FIR. "Now police will take action accordingly," she told PTI.
The AIMIM Jharkhand president Md Shakir, however, refuted the allegation terming it a "tampered video".
Owaisi was in Giridih district on Wednesday and addressed a public rally to seek votes for his party's candidate Md Abdul Mobin Rizvi in the Dumri assembly bypoll.
The polling for the by-election to the Dumri assembly constituency will be held on September 5, and the votes will be counted on September 8.
The by-election was necessitated due to the death of JMM MLA Jagarnath Mahto, the former education minister, in April. The JMM has fielded Mahto's wife Bebi Devi as the candidate of the INDIA bloc, while the AJSU Party has nominated Yashoda Devi as the NDA candidate.
In the 2019 assembly elections, Mahto defeated AJSU Party's Yashoda Devi by a margin of 34,288 votes. AIMIM's Rizvi was in the fourth position with 24,132 votes.
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Two arrested in K'taka for assaulting minors, uploading CSAM content
Bengaluru (PTI): Two men were arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting two minor girls, recording the acts on mobile phones and uploading the videos online as child sexual abuse material, police said on Thursday.
The accused have been identified as Kiran Kumar (29), hailing from Chitradurga district, and Aditya M K (20), hailing from Shivamogga district, they said.
A probe was initiated after information was received from the NCRP portal regarding a suspected instance of creation of Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) for online dissemination, police said.
Accordingly, a case was registered at Kaggalipura Police Station under relevant sections of the IT Act on May 10, they added.
Investigation revealed that two minor girl victims were exploited and videos were created and uploaded to the internet. The child victims have subsequently recorded their statements as per procedure and further necessary legal steps have been taken, Pronab Mohanty Director General of Police, Cyber Command, said in a statement.
Based on the statements of the victims, the accused persons, who allegedly assaulted the minors, recorded the acts on mobile phones and uploaded the videos online, were arrested, he said.
Following the probe, sections 65(2) (rape) and 70 (gangrape) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, along with relevant sections of the POCSO Act, have been added to the FIR, police said.
Officials collected relevant information and on May 12, arrested the accused persons and seized three mobile phones belonging to them, in which the videos had allegedly been recorded, he said.
The accused were later produced before the court and taken into police custody for further investigation, he added.
According to him, in CSAM cases, police usually apprehend offenders who have downloaded such content or have kept them in their possession after obtaining them from elsewhere, usually the internet.
"The present case is one of the very few instances where content creators and uploaders have been apprehended," Mohanty added.
