223 kg of Ganja stored underground recovered in police raid in Karnataka
Kalaburagi: As a part of a state-wide crackdown against the drugs menace by Bengaluru Police, in an operation had seized a huge consignment of Ganja drugs in Kalagi Taluk in the district recently. The local police on Sunday seized another 223 kilograms of Ganja that was stored underground in Chincholi Taluk here.
The raiding team has also arrested one person in connection with the case. The raiding team was led by Dy.SP Veerbhadrayya, and CPI Manthesh. Chincholi PSI Rajshekhar Rathod and other police personnel were part of the operation.
The operation was carried after getting credible information about the storage of drugs, police sources added.
The arrested accused has been identified as Ramachandra Rathod (49).
Police recovered 223 kg of Ganja worth Rs. 10 lakh that was stored underground.
A case in this regard has been registered at Chincholi Police Station and further investigations are underway.
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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.
