Mangaluru: Three arrested in Vittla gang rape case of minor Dalit girl; two absconding
Mangaluru: Vittla Police on Tuesday afternoon arrested three people including the Taluk Panchayath staff in connection with the gang-rape case of the minor Dalit girl which came to light earlier in the day.
A case under POCSO act and SC/ST Act was registered against five people at Vitla Police Station. Police said that it was looking for two more people allegedly involved in the crime.
The arrested accused have been identified as Krishna Naik (38) a tax collector at Mudnoor Taluk Panchayath, Auto Driver Dhanush Naik (23) and victim’s relative, Ganesh.
According to the reports a Dalit minor girl was raped by five people including Taluk Panchayath staff who had threatened her not to reveal the crime to anybody. The crime came to the light when the ASHA workers visited the house of the victim and noticed her pregnancy, following which a case was registered on Tuesday morning at Vitla Police station.
The victim is reportedly 6-month pregnant.
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Tickets booked for 'The Kerala Story 2' being refunded, film not released: Lawyers
Kochi (PTI): The tickets booked during the day for 'The Kerala Story 2-Goes Beyond' were being refunded and the film has not been released, the lawyers for the petitioners who opposed the movie's screening said on Friday.
Advocate Maitreyi Sachidananda Hegde, who represents one of the petitioners -- Sreedev Namboodiri -- told PTI in the afternoon that she will not be moving a contempt plea against the film's producer as the movie has not been released and the ticket sales were being refunded.
Hegde, in the morning, mentioned before Justice Bechu Kurian Thomas that despite a stay on the release of the film, ticket bookings for the film were going on.
She mentioned it before the single judge even as the matter of the release of the movie was before a division bench which had reserved order regarding it on Thursday after a late night hearing.
She also told Justice Thomas that she will verify whether the film was being screened in theatres during the day and accordingly, will file a contempt plea.
In the afternoon, Hegde said that on verification she found that "the film has not been released and the ticket amounts were being refunded".
"So, I will not be moving a contempt petition," she said.
Justice Thomas on Thursday stayed release of the film for 15 days saying that prima facie there was a manifest non-application of mind to the requirement of law by the censor board, CBFC.
The judge also said that "the possibility of communal disharmony or denigration of a community also being prima facie involved in the movie", its release without scrutiny by the higher authorities would be legally improper.
The court had further said that the content of the film's teaser has "a prima facie potential to distort public perception and disturb communal harmony".
Later in the night, the producer -- Vipul Amrutlal Shah -- moved an appeal before a division bench of justices Sushrut Arvind Dharmadhikari and P V Balakrishnan which reserved order in the matter after hearing extensive arguments from all stakeholders. However, the bench did not issue any interim direction staying the single judge's decision.
