14-year-old girl near B'luru forced to marry, man carries her away in broad daylight
Five held by Tamil Nadu police
Bengaluru: Five people accused of forcing a 14-year-old girl from near Bengaluru into wedlock recently have been arrested by Denkanikottai Women Police of Tamil Nadu following a complaint filed by the girl’s grandmother.
A video clip has also gone viral on social media, where a young man is seen carrying away the weeping girl in the presence of another man and a woman, who are accompanying the man ignoring the struggle of the girl.
The girl, who was a resident of Thimmattur village in the valleys of Thottamanju hills near Hosur in Tamil Nadu, had studied till Class 7, after which, she was staying with her parents. On Monday, March 3, she was forcibly married to 29-year-old Madesha, a manual worker from Kalikuttai village in Karnataka. The girl, who returned to Thimmattur after the wedding ceremony in Bengaluru, is learned to have expressed displeasure about the wedding and refused to go to her husband’s house, but neither her parents nor relatives took heed of her objections, the sources have added.
Later, Madesha and his elder brother Mallesh carried the girl away from her relatives’ house in Kalikuttai village to their own house. The scene was captured in the locals’ mobile phones, with the eye-witnesses uploading and sharing the clip on social media platforms.
The girl’s grandmother is learned to have filed a complaint with Denkanikottai Women Police. The officers, who filed a POCSO Act case as well as an abduction case against the accused, arrested Madesha, his brother Mallesha and the girl’s mother Nagamma on Wednesday. They also arrested the girl’s father and Mallesh’s wife early Thursday morning.
The girl is learned to be currently living with her grandparents.
14 வயது சிறுமிக்கு வலுக்கட்டாயமாக திருமணம் செய்து வைத்த தாய்.. திருமணத்தில் விருப்பம் இல்லை என கூறி பிறந்த வீட்டிற்கு வந்த சிறுமியை தூக்கி சென்ற கணவர்.. பரபரப்பு காட்சி#Hosur | #ChildMarriage | #Mother | #Husband | #Police | #Arrested pic.twitter.com/UjVkpfNUFS
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Chinese products showcased at AI Summit; irreparable damage caused to country's image: Cong
New Delhi (PTI): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday dubbed the ongoing AI Summit a "disorganised PR spectacle" and alleged that Chinese products are being showcased there.
Gandhi's remarks came amid a controversy over Galgotias University allegedly showcasing a robotic dog labelled "Orion" at the AI Summit Expo that critics said was actually a Chinese-made Unitree Go2 and not an in-house innovation.
"Instead of leveraging India's talent and data, the AI summit is a disorganised PR spectacle - Indian data up for sale, Chinese products showcased," the former Congress president said in a post on X.
According to sources, Galgotias University has been asked to vacate its stall at the AI Summit Expo immediately.
Gandhi also tagged a post of the Congress which alleged, "The Modi government has made a laughing stock of India globally, with regard to AI."
"In the ongoing AI Summit, Chinese robots are being displayed as our own," he charged.
The Congress claimed that the Chinese media has mocked India.
"This is truly embarrassing for India. What is even more shameful is the fact that Modi's minister Ashwini Vaishnaw is indulging in the same falsehood, promoting China's robots at the Indian summit," it said.
"The Modi Government has caused irreparable damage to the image of the country - they have reduced AI to a joke - a field in which we could be world leaders given our data power. Brazenly shameless," the party said on X.
Congress' media and publicity department head Pawan Khera said in a post on X, "Ashwini Vaishnaw has proved that in India AI means 'Ashwini is Incompetent'."
"As for the 'Pradhan (Tamasha) Mantri' - every event is a 'Jhappi-pappi' fest. This was supposed to be an AI Summit - a platform for innovation and exchange of ideas. BJP reduced it to a cheap China Bazaar," Khera said in his post, adding that the Gen Z of the country would not forgive them.
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