Karnataka to hold winter session of state legislature in Belagavi from Dec 8
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Bengaluru (PTI): The Karnataka cabinet on Thursday decided to hold the winter session of the state legislature in Belagavi for 10 days starting from December 8.
Karnataka Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister H K Patil said Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has been authorised to take the final call on the matter.
Patil said three cabinet sub-committees, which had not submitted their report for more than six months, were directed to do so at the earliest.
One committee pertains to the Justice John Michael D’Cunha’s report on the procurement of medicines and medical equipment during COVID-19, the Minister said.
Second committee was formed to review the financial condition of the universities in Karnataka and make suitable recommendations while the third committee was tasked with reviewing the developments on the Bengaluru-Mysuru Infrastructure Corridor and initiating appropriate steps to be taken in future.
The first and second committees are headed by the Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar while the third is by the Home Minister, Patil said adding it was resolved that the report should be submitted at the earliest though no time limit has not been specified.
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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.
