Mangaluru Court sentences Bantwal man to ten year imprisonment for raping minor
Mangaluru: A Special POCSO Court (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) on Tuesday sentenced a man to ten year imprisonment after finding him guilty of raping a minor girl several time between 2014 and 2015.
The accused identified as Santosh (34), a resident of Bantwal who was working as a driver had in 2014 befriended a minor girl and had raped her. He had also threatened the girl of not revealing the crime to anybody or that he will spoil her name.
On this pretext the accused then repeatedly called the victim to meet him and raped her several times and impregnated the minor girl. The girl, after delivering a baby girl in 2015 had filed a complaint at Bantwal Town Police Station.
B R Pallavi, had ordered DNA test of child, victim and the accused which turned out that Santosh was the father of the kid. This proved to be the deciding factor in the case and the sentenced was pronounced on Tuesday. Santosh has also been asked to pay a fine of 10,000 Rupees of which 7500 will be given to the victim.
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Sportspersons winning gold in Olympics to get Rs 6 crore cash prize, says CM Siddaramaiah
‘Silver medalists to get Rs 4 crore, bronze-winners to get Rs 3 crore’
Bengaluru: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has announced a cash prize of Rs 6 crore for sportspersons who win gold in the Olympics, and expressed confidence that sportspersons from Karnataka would reach the top in their respective games.
The CM, speaking during the ‘Karnataka Olympics 2025’ awards ceremony organized by the Karnataka Olympics Association, Bengaluru, on Sunday, congratulated the winners.
Assuring that the state government was supportive of sports, he said that, sportspersons who win silver would be given Rs 4 crore and bronze-winners would get Rs 3 crore as cash prize.
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Siddaramaiah added that reservation for sportspersons in appointment to government jobs is being implemented starting January 2026. “Up to 3 per cent jobs in the Police and Forest Departments and 2 per cent in the other government departments are being reserved for sportspersons. An official order will be passed in this regard in January 2026,” he said and called upon youngsters to enter the sports field in larger numbers.
The CM also lauded the contributions of the Karnataka Olympics Association in the field of sports, since 1958, when it was founded. “The Association has been even more active since MLC Govindaraj took charge as Chairperson. It is a matter of pride that just like in Andhra Pradesh and Kerala, the Olympics Association in our state too functions from its own building,” he added.
