Udupi, December 28: "Dinesh Amin Mattu has been criticising me from behind. When comes in front of me, he shows more concern. Let him come before me and discuss with me", said Vishveshwara Thirtha Swamiji of Pejawara Mutt.

After the visit of President Ramanath Kovind to Pejawara Mutt and Sri Krishna Mutt here on Thursday, the Swamiji was speaking to media people and challenged the senior journalist.

While speaking at a recent programme, Dinesh Amin Mattu had said that 'since he was aged, Pejawara Swamiji was mentally unsound. He changes his words every now and then. So there is no need to take his words seriously'. When reporters asked the Swamiji, he challenged Dinesh.

"When he met me at the airport recently, he spoke me very well. But he speaks differently from behind. The road where Udupi Chalo was conducted and the place purified by the devotees of the Mutt were different. But Dinesh has been raising the issue repeatedly", he said.



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Bengaluru: The owner of a private residential school in Devanahalli, his wife and the principal of the school have been arrested under charge of rape of a 14-year-old girl who was studying in Class 8 in the school.

While 600 children study from Class 1 to 10 in the school, 150 of them are learned to be girls.

The rape victim and her parents reportedly filed a police complaint on Friday, accusing the school owner of sexually assaulting her. They also accused the owner’s wife and the principal of the school of failing to intervene.

The complainant has reportedly told the police that she was raped repeatedly for eight days. She added that when she approached the owner’s wife and the school principal to get their help, they allegedly brushed the matter aside, saying such incidents were common ‘in current days’. Both of them, however, told her not to divulge the matter to anyone, the girl is learned to have said in her complaint.

She reportedly has told her parents that the owner, who had been in a drunken state, told her to come to the warden’s office at night. He took her to a room and raped her, she added. Unable to bear the torture, she is learned to have informed her parents.

Based on their complaint, a rape case was registered against the school owner, and an abetment case against his wife and the school principal.

Police sources have said that information is being gathered from other students of the school if more such incidents have occurred in the school.