Rahul Gandhi gets a new look ahead of lecture at Cambridge University
New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s new look for his London visit is attracting attention – the MP apparently got his hair and beard trimmed for the first time since the start of the party rally Bharat Jodo Yatra.
Gandhi landed in London on Tuesday for a student-only lecture at his alma mater, the University of Cambridge. A visiting fellow of the Cambridge Judge Business School (Cambridge JBS), he will speak on "Learning to Listen in the 21st Century".
Pictures of the MP with cropped hair and styled beard were shared by many on social media, with some even using the hash tag #NewLook, reports NDTV.
Rahul Gandhi had not gotten his hair or beard trimmed during the period of the mega rally of the Congress, which covered about 4,000 km in more than four months.
Himanta Biswa Sarma, Assam Chief Minister, had commented in November 2022 that the Congress leader was looking like Saddam Hussein, the former Iraqi dictator.
राहुल गांधी कैंब्रिज यूनिवर्सिटी में - #NewLook pic.twitter.com/Hu7jLdRmDK
— Sandeep Singh (@ActivistSandeep) March 1, 2023
Rahul Gandhi ji trims off his beard, finally. @RahulGandhi #RahulGandhi pic.twitter.com/YsHkjoeGiN
— Sundar IYC (@sundar_iyc) March 1, 2023
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Indian national sentenced to 35 years in prison for sexual exploitation of minors, child pornography
New York (PTI): A 31-year-old Indian national has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for sexually exploiting several children through a social media app where he often posed as a teenage boy to gain their trust and threatened and extorted them with child pornography when they refused his requests.
Sai Kumar Kurremula, 31, an Indian national living in Edmond, Oklahoma on an immigrant visa, has been sentenced to serve 420 months in federal prison for the sexual exploitation of three children and transportation of child pornography, US Attorney Robert Troester said in a statement.
At the sentencing hearing last week, US District Judge Charles Goodwin sentenced Kurremula to serve 420 months in federal prison, followed by a lifetime term of supervised release.
In announcing his sentence, Goodwin noted that these offences are among those that society considers the most serious because they involve such vulnerable victims. Goodwin further highlighted that Kurremula inflicted trauma on his victims that will echo throughout their lives and their families’ lives, and his lengthy sentence of imprisonment reflects that trauma.
In April last year, Kurremula was charged with sexual exploitation of children and transportation of child pornography. According to an affidavit filed in support of a criminal complaint, in October 2023, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) began investigating an account on a social media messaging app involving a user who was sexually exploiting minor girls.
The Internet Protocol address used to create the account led federal authorities to Kurremula. Public documents and evidence at the sentencing hearing allege Kurremula had sexually exploited at least 19 minors through the social media messaging app, often posing as a 13-15-year-old boy to gain the trust of his victims. When the victims refused his requests, Kurremula would manipulate, threaten, and extort his victims to produce even more child pornography.
Kurremula had pleaded guilty and admitted to sexually exploiting three minor victims and knowingly transporting images of child pornography. Specifically, Kurremula admitted that to ensure the minor victims complied, he threatened one minor that he would drive to her house and show her parents sexually explicit images of her; threatened another victim that he would come to her home and shoot her family; and threatened a third young individual that he would publicly post sexually explicit images and videos of her.
“The appalling exploitation, manipulation, and coercion of multiple children by this defendant justly warranted the 35-year sentence imposed by the Court,” Troester said. “This case serves as a clear warning to others that the strongest of penalties await those who exploit and victimize our children.” FBI Oklahoma City Special Agent in Charge Doug Goodwater said Kurremula manipulated children into sending him explicit images for his perverse gratification. “These disgusting actions robbed the victims of their innocence and caused unthinkable harm,” Goodwater said.
