Jharkhand CM Soren orders probe into ropeway accident, announces Rs 5 lakh compensation
Deoghar (Jharkhand) (PTI): Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren Tuesday ordered a high-level probe into the cable cars tragedy on a ropeway at Trikut Hills here that claimed three lives and directed the filing of an FIR in connection with it.
Soren chaired a high-level meeting on the incident in which about 60 tourists were trapped in cable cars midway for over 46 hours at Trikut Hills, about 20 kms from famous Baba Baidyanath temple, since 4 pm on Sunday after a ropeway malfunction that resulted in trolleys colliding.
They were evacuated by combined teams of Indian Air Force, Army, ITBP, NDRF and district administration.
"Chief Minister Hemant Soren who chaired a high-level meeting Tuesday directed officials to constitute a high-level inquiry committee to investigate the Trikut hills ropeway accident in Deoghar district and to include experts related to the ropeway in the committee constituted," a CMO statement said.
In the meeting directions were also given to register an FIR regarding Trikut Hills ropeway accident, it said.
The statement said that a compensation of Rs five lakh will be given to the dependents of each dead in the ropeway accident as well as to the kin of the person killed in violence at Lohardaga during the Ramnavmi festival.
One person was killed and 12 others were injured while a number of vehicles were torched in violence during Ramnavmi on April 10 in Lohardaga district.
Soren also directed officers present in the meeting to provide quality treatment to those injured in both the incidents.
Jharkhand High Court on Tuesday took suo motu congnisance of the Deoghar ropeway accident and asked the state government to submit a report by April 25.
The Indian Air Forces said in a statement that an Mi-17V5, one Mi-17, one advanced light helicopter and one Cheetah helicopter flew more than 26 hours during it.
The rescue of 14 of the last remaining 15 tourists, who were trapped mid-air for over 46 hours, ended on Tuesday afternoon with a tragedy as a 60-year-old woman fell to her death while being winched up by a helicopter, raising the death toll to three.
Two others fell to their deaths as they were being winched up by choppers on Monday and Tuesday during botched rescue attempts. Twelve injured tourists are undergoing treatment in hospitals.
Trikut Hills, which houses the famous Trikutachal Mahadeva Temple and the hermitage of Sage Dayananda, has several peaks the highest being 2,470 feet above the sea level.
The Trikut ropeway is the country's highest vertical ropeway and is about 766 metre long, according to the Jharkhand tourism department.
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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.
