Bypolls: BJP ahead in three seats, TRS in Munugode after initial rounds
New Delhi (PTI): The BJP was ahead in Gola Gokarannath in Uttar Pradesh, in Haryana's Adampur and Odisha's Dhamnagar after the initial round of counting of votes as counting got underway on Sunday in the bypolls to seven assembly constituencies in six states.
The BJP, however, was trailing in Bihar where the RJD has established a lead in the two assembly seats of Mokama and Gopalganj after the first round of counting.
The ruling TRS was ahead of its rivals after the first round of counting in Telangana's Munugode. The TRS has secured 6,096 votes while its nearest rival BJP got 4,904 votes in the first round. The Congress garnered 1,877 votes, official sources said.
BJP candidate Aman Giri took a lead in the initial round of counting of votes on Sunday in the Gola Gokarannath Assembly bypolls in Uttar Pradesh. While Giri has got 8,943 votes so far, Samajwadi Party's Vinay Tiwari got 5,008 votes, officials said.
In Haryana, BJP candidate Bhavya Bishnoi is leading from the Adampur assembly segment. Bhavya is leading by a margin of 2,832 votes from his nearest rival and Congress candidate Jai Prakash.
In Odisha, BJP candidate Suryabanshi Suraj registered an early lead over his BJD rival Abanti Das by 769 votes after the first round of counting of votes for Dhamnagar bypolls in Bhadrak district, according to Election Commission (EC) trends.
According to the EC, Suraj secured 4,749 votes in the initial round while BJD candidate Abanti Das bagged 3,980. Congress nominee Baba Harekrushna Sethi got 162 votes.
The constituencies where results of the November 3 bypolls will be out Sunday include Gopalganj in Bihar, Andheri (East) of Maharashtra, Munugode of Telangana, Gola Gokarannath of Uttar Pradesh, and Dhamnagar of Odisha.
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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.
