Postponement of State Waqf Board chairman election
Bengaluru: The election for the post of the State Waqf Board chairman, which was scheduled to be held today (Feb 17) at 12 PM, has been postponed.
It was reported that preparations were underway to re-elect former Waqf Board chairman K. Anwar Basha for another term. However, Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) Vice President Muhammad Ubaidullah Sharif and Syed Ashraf, who had served as the political secretary to former Prime Minister V.P. Singh, recently held a press conference, releasing documents and demanding that Anwar Basha should not be re-elected due to allegations of encroachment on government graveyard land.
Additionally, concerns were raised regarding the government's nomination of members to the Waqf Board without consulting senior leaders. Minority Welfare and Waqf Minister Zameer Ahmed Khan was accused of making unilateral decisions in this regard.
Sharif and Ashraf had warned that if Anwar Basha was reappointed as chairman, they would systematically release documents related to land encroachments and land grabs involving him and other board members.
By postponing the election, the government appears to be attempting to address the dissatisfaction among senior community leaders.
Recently, the government nominated former chairman Khalid Ahmed, Maulana Syed Muhiyuddin Husaini Peer Zade, Maulana Mir Qasim Abbas, and IPS officer Sara Fatima as members of the Waqf Board.
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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.
