Missing mentally challenged person from Rajasthan found in Mangaluru, reunited with family
Mangaluru: A 32-year-old mentally challenged man Mahesh, who was wandering on the streets of Mangaluru for the last few years and was causing a nuisance to the general public on the streets, was recently reunited with his family from Rajasthan by a local NGO.
Mangaluru North (Bunder) Police Station, over the last three years, had received several complaints about the man and his behavior on the streets but had failed to catch him as he used to escape every time the police would try to take him under the custody.
A local resident of Car Street in the city, Narayan on July 27 informed about the man to Asif 'Apadbhandawa', who runs a rehabilitation center in Mulki. Asif reached Car Street with Salam and Aftab. They took the mentally challenged man into confidence, cleaned him, and gave haircut and shave. They also dressed him neatly before shifting him to their rehabilitation center. Unknowing of his identity, Asif named him 'Raju'.
After a month-long psychiatric intervention at 'Maimuna Foundation Apadbhandawa Psycho Rehabilitation Cente', Mahesh recovered. He said he knew his parents' phone number and asked the caretaker to dial. Over a phone call, when he said "I'm Mahesh", his father began weeping listening to his voice after over three years, Asif said.
Mahesh hails from Luni village of Jodhpur district in Rajasthan. According to his far-relative, Mahesh is a well-educated person and had been appointed as an officer in the Railways. As his mental health deteriorated, he went missing from Mumbai in 2017 and landed in Mangaluru. Since then he has been roaming the streets, throwing stones at people, and causing trouble to locals.
As soon as his family was informed of his whereabouts, they informed the Patel community including his far-relative in Mangaluru. His family is about to reach Mangaluru by flight today to take him home. Due to delay in the flight connection, Mahesh was handed over to his far-relatives in the presence of Circle Inspector Govind Raju B and representatives of Anjana Patel Samaj at Mangaluru North (Bunder) Police Station on Thursday, September 10.
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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.
