Panambur police arrest accused, rescue abducted minor girl, POCSO Act invoked
Mangaluru: The case of the abduction of a minor girl, initially reported at the local police station, has taken a new turn as the Panambur police successfully apprehended the accused and rescued the girl.
The police promptly registered a case under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act in response to the alleged incident.
The arrested individual has been identified as Muhammad Sarfaraz, known as Chappu (22), hailing from Kasba Bengre. Acting on a complaint filed by the parents of the girl, the Panambur Police Station took action against the accused, who was accused of both molesting the minor girl and kidnapping her on August 10. This led to a swift operation led by Police Inspector Somashekhar J.P., with his team managing to apprehend both Muhammad Sarfaraz and the abducted girl after hours of determined efforts.
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Authorities have confirmed that a case has been registered against the accused under multiple sections, including IPC Section 303 37 and Section 4 of the POCSO Act, under Police Station No. 03/20. The accused is also facing allegations in a total of eight cases under various sections across police stations in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts, including Panambur, Kankanadi, Mangalore North, and Byndoor. Particularly, the accused was reportedly evading the law in a case registered at the Kankanadi Nagar police station AC No. 63/2023 (Section: 457,360 IPC) and the Byndoor police station AC No. 06/2013 (Section: 457,368 IPC).
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PM Modi, RSS strengthening wall in path of SCs, STs, OBCs: Rahul Gandhi
New Delhi (PTI): Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the RSS were strengthening the wall standing in the path of Dalits, Adivasis and OBCs, even as he acknowledged that the UPA took steps to weaken that wall but not to the extent it should have.
Addressing the 'Samvidhan Rakshak Abhiyaan', Gandhi also referred to the function held on Constitution Day in Parliament and said that it is his guarantee, that "Modi has not read" the Constitution.
"If PM Modi would have read this book then what he does daily, he would not do it," Gandhi said, displaying a copy of the Constitution of India.
Gandhi said the country's whole system is pitted against Dalits, Adivasis and backward class people.
He said a wall obstructs the path of Dalits, Adivasis and OBCs and Modi and the RSS are strengthening that wall by "adding cement to it".
"Slowly the wall (obstructing the path of SCs, STs, OBCs) is getting strengthened. Earlier, the UPA government gave MGNREGA, the land acquisition act, the right to food...those were ways to weaken that wall. Today, when I look back, I can say the UPA government did not weaken the wall to the extent it should have, it did not do it as strongly as it should have," Gandhi said.
"However, we used to make efforts to weaken that wall but they (the BJP) are strengthening that wall by adding concrete," the former Congress president said.
Gandhi said a caste survey being carried out in Telangana is a historic step and the Congress will do the same wherever it comes to power.
