Mangaluru: Close on the heels of a college student from Moodigere ending her life after some unscrupulous elements threatened her and even tried to defame her by circulating her photo on social sites, another similar incident of trying to defame a female student has been reported from Mangaluru.
Madhuri Bolar, an M.Com student at the Government Women's First Grade College at Carstreet, who also happens to be the District Secretary of the Student Federation Of India has lodged a complaint with the City Police Commissioner alleging that she was being linked to a Muslim youth by misusing a Facebook group photo clicked with classmates and circulating it in WhatsApp.
"The group photo with colleagues of the student movement namely Ganesh Bolar, Suhas Adiga and Hamza Kinya was uploaded on Facebook. But since some days this photo is being circulated on WhatsApp by some activists of a Hindu outfit who are involved in a malicious propaganda that Hindu girls talking to Muslim boys was leading to Love Jihad."
She also alleged that the photo with the message that Hamza who is seen with Hindu girls should be kept on watched and taught lesson.
Madhuri has said that she was suffering mental agony and also fears this may affect her studies. She also said even her parents are worried over the development. She has urged the Police to initiate stern action against those resorting to such malicious propaganda.
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Thane (PTI): A 29-year-old autorickshaw driver has been arrested for allegedly sodomising a nine-year-old boy in Maharashtra's Thane district, police said on Friday.
Based on a complaint lodged by the child's father, the police registered a case under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act against the accused and apprehended him in Bhiwandi town on Thursday, an official said.
The accused was ferrying the boy and other school children home in the afternoon when he stopped his autorickshaw near a park in the Dhobitalao locality and asked the children to play, holding the boy behind, he said.
The accused allegedly sodomised the boy in the vehicle. The child later informed his parents about the assault, the official said, adding that a probe is on.