Chikkamagaluru: Seven-year-old girl allegedly raped by father
POCSO case filed against absconding accused
Chikkamagaluru: In an incident reported from Coolie Line in Hosahalli in the district, a man allegedly raped his seven-year-old daughter and also injured her private parts on Friday, before absconding.
Mallandur Police have filed a case against the accused, who is identified as Murthy, a resident of Coolie Line, based on a complaint by a counselor at the District Child Protection Unit.
The complainant has said that the girl, who is a student of Class 2, was taking bath at home on Friday, when her father raped her. He further thrust a broken water bottle into her private parts, resulting an injury there.
The police has been told that girl brought the matter to the notice of her mother, who had gone out of the house during the incident. The mother noticed her daughter to be bleeding from her private parts and took her to hospital for a check-up. The doctors confirmed that primary inspection showed that the girl had been subjected to sexual assault.
The complainant added that the girl, who was also taken to the Sakhi One Stop Centre, confided before the counselor that her father had warned her not to speak about the incident. He had, instead, told his daughter to clarify that she was bleeding since her father had stamped her private parts for bathing without her clothes on. The victim is learned to have been raped by her father earlier too.
Mallandur Police have registered a case against Murthy under POCSO Act and are investigating to find the accused, who is absconding.
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Another North Goa nightclub sealed; Kejriwal says corruption led to fire tragedy
Panaji (PTI): As part of a crackdown against tourist establishments violating laws and safety norms in the aftermath of the Arpora fire tragedy, Goa authorities on Saturday sealed a renowned club at Vagator and revoked the fire department NOC of another club.
Cafe CO2 Goa, located on a cliff overlooking the Arabian Sea at Vagator beach in North Goa, was sealed. The move came two days after Goya Club, also in Vagator, was shut down for alleged violations of rules.
Elsewhere, campaigning for local body polls, AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal said the fire incident at Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub at Arpora, which claimed 25 lives on December 6, happened because the BJP government in the state was corrupt.
An inspection of Cafe CO2 Goa by a state government-appointed team revealed that the establishment, with a seating capacity of 250, did not possess a no-objection certificate (NOC) of the Fire and Emergency Services Department. The club, which sits atop Ozrant Cliff, also did not have structural stability, the team found.
The Fire and Emergency Services on Saturday also revoked the NOC issued to Diaz Pool Club and Bar at Anjuna as the fire extinguishers installed in the establishment were found to be inadequate, said divisional fire officer Shripad Gawas.
A notice was issued to Nitin Wadhwa, the partner of the club, he said in the order.
Campaigning at Chimbel village near Panaji in support of his party's Zilla Panchayat election candidate, Aam Aadmi Party leader Kejriwal said the nightclub fire at Arpora happened because of the "corruption of the Pramod Sawant-led state government."
"Why this fire incident happened? I read in the newspapers that the nightclub had no occupancy certificate, no building licence, no excise licence, no construction licence or trade licence. The entire club was illegal but still it was going on," he said.
"How could it go on? Couldn't Pramod Sawant or anyone else see it? I was told that hafta (bribe) was being paid," the former Delhi chief minister said.
A person can not work without bribing officials in the coastal state, Kejriwal said, alleging that officers, MLAs and even ministers are accepting bribes.
