Girl mauled to death by stray dogs in Punjab's Hoshiarpur
Hoshiarpur (PTI): An eight-year-old girl was mauled to death by a pack of stray dogs in a village in Punjab's Hoshiarpur district on Wednesday morning, police said.
The deceased has been identified as Saloni, daughter of Pyare Lal, a native of Uttar Pradesh currently residing at Kharal Khurd village under Tanda police station limits.
The incident took place around 8.30 am when the girl had stepped out of her house before leaving for school. On the way, a pack of stray dogs surrounded her and mauled her brutally, police said.
When the child did not return home for a long time, her family members began searching for her and later found her lying in a pool of blood on the roadside.
She was rushed to the Community Health Centre in Tanda, where doctors declared her brought dead, they said.
On receiving information, the police reached the spot, took the body into custody and began investigating the incident.
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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.
