Four held for attempting to assault cops
Case against 10 persons including Vittla town panchayat member
Bantwala, July 08: Vittla police on Sunday arrested four persons on charges of obstructing the police from discharging their duty and attempting to assault them.
The arrested are identified as Praveen, Ganesh, Aneesh and Akshath. Based on a complaint by police station employee Prasanna Kumar, the police booked a case against ten members including Vittle town panchayat member Srikrishna and his brother Srihari.
About the incident
When police personnel S Ashok, Prasanna Kumar and Jayanth were on their night duty at around 12.30 am, a team of ten members including Srikrishna were making merry at old bus stand and creating nuisance in an inebriated condition. When the police asked them to leave the place as it was a public place, one among ten persons threatened the police and spit the cigarette smoke on their face. At this time, another person in the group snatched the mobile phone of Ashok who was recording the incident and stopped him from doing his duty. The police said that they even had tried to assault them.
As soon as the police summoned more force from the police station, the accused fled the scene leaving the mobile phone behind. A case was registered at Vittla police station.
One among the accused is town panchayat member backed by BJP. Now, four accused were arrested, said SP Ravikanthe Gowda.
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SC asks states to treat rising child trafficking cases as grave; seeks coordinated action
New Delhi (PTI): The Supreme Court has voiced grave concern over rising cases of child trafficking, saying gangs are operating across the country and if States and Union territories do not take immediate action, thing will go beyond control.
The court said only the state government and its home department can act vigilantly in this regard.
“As a court we can monitor, but ultimately the action has to be on the part of the state government, the police, and other agencies. Therefore, this is our humble request”, a bench comprising Justices JB Pardiwala and K V Viswanathan said during the hearing of a plea on Wednesday.
The bench was irked over the "lackadaisical" approach of several states and UTs in implementing a 2025 judgment aimed at dismantling organised trafficking networks.
Justice Viswanathan said the retrieval of children in some cases proves the problem can be tackled, but it requires a level of political and administrative will which is lacking at present.
The verdict, delivered on April 15, 2025, had mandated several institutional reforms, including completion of trials in trafficking cases within six months on a day-to-day basis.
It had also directed strengthening of Anti-Human Trafficking Units (AHTUs) and improving investigation standards.
Besides asking for setting up of state-level committees to monitor vulnerable trafficking hotspots, it had asked the authorities to treat missing children cases as trafficking unless proven otherwise.
Earlier, the bench had termed the compliance reports filed by a few states as "nothing but an eye wash."
On Wednesday, the bench noted that Madhya Pradesh, Goa, Haryana, Lakshadweep, Mizoram, Odisha, and Punjab had still failed to file reports in the prescribed format.
When the home secretary of Madhya Pradesh offered an apology for the lapse, the bench granted a "final opportunity" but warned that continued failure would lead to states being officially branded as "defaulting".
The bench noted that at least 15 states are yet to constitute review committees mandated to identify and monitor trafficking-prone areas.
The matter will now be heard on April 29.
