Leopard leaps onto moving car near Pune, series of big cat incidents reported across Maharashtra
Pune: In a startling incident, a leopard leapt onto a moving car on the Pune-Ahilyanagar Road near Kamargaon, injuring itself in the process on Tuesday morning. The encounter was captured on video, has since gone viral.
The leopard leaped out of the roadside shrubs, according to eyewitnesses. It attempted to attack a speeding automobile. It misjudged the leap, hit the vehicle's bonnet and sliding onto the road. Motorists came to a halt as the injured leopard sat immobile for several minutes. Crowd gathered and caused temporary chaos on the busy stretch.
Forest officials reached the spot shortly after they were alerted. They confirmed that the animal was later safely rescued and taken for medical treatment, as reported by The Free Press Journal. The event follows a series of leopard-related attacks in Pune area in recent weeks.
Earlier, a police officer in Kolhapur narrowly escaped a leopard attack during a rescue operation near the MSEB Mahavitaran office in the city center. The leopard had strayed into the area, causing panic. During the rescue operation, the leopard became violent and attacked the cops. Viral video shows one officer stumbling as the leopard lunges at him. His crew successfully fended off the animal, but the cop got minor injuries.
In another case, forest officials in Junnar taluka’s Ghadgepat village successfully trapped a three-year-old female leopard early Sunday morning. The big cat was captured in a cage placed in a banana plantation and later transferred to the Manikdoh Leopard Rescue Centre for care and observation.
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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.
