Chhattisgarh: Man molests minor schoolgirl, shoots obscene video; held
Korba (PTI): A 30-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly molesting a minor schoolgirl and shooting a video of the act in Chhattisgarh's Korba district, police said on Sunday.
Locals ransacked the accused man's poultry shop in Dhelwadih village after the incident, which took place on Friday evening, came to light, an official said.
The accused allegedly accosted the two girls who were walking home from school and offered to drop them on his motorcycle, he said.
He took the girls to a nearby jungle, where he allegedly molested one of them and shot an obscene video of the act, the official said.
When one of the girls started screaming, the accused abandoned the duo and fled the scene, he said.
Alerted by the screams, a few school children and locals working in the nearby farms reached the scene and the girls were sent home safely, the official said.
The family members and other locals later ransacked the accused man's poultry shop in Dhelwadih while looking for him, he said.
The police reached the spot and pacified the crowd, and took the accused into custody, the official said.
A case under section 354 (molestation) of the Indian Penal Code and relevant provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act was has been registered, he said.
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Death toll from Israeli strikes in northeast Lebanon rises from 8 to 24, Lebanese news agency says
Deir al-Balah, Nov 1: Israeli airstrikes on Friday killed at least 24 people in northeastern Lebanon, the country's news agency said, raising the death toll from eight there.
It was the latest deadly toll in the area since the conflict between Israel and the Lebanese group Hezbollah escalated last month.
Israel's military has said that its operation in Lebanon is targeting Hezbollah's military infrastructure.
Lebanon's state National news Agency reported four airstrikes in different villages across country's northeast, saying rescuers were still searching for survivors in Younine, a town in the Bekaa Valley, from the rubble of a targeted house.
Hussein Haj Hassan, a Lebanese lawmaker representing the region in Baalbek-Hermel region, said that 60,000 people have already fled their homes in the area due to Israeli bombardment.
