Bengaluru, July 31: Deputy Chief Minister Dr G Parameshwar said that the fight for separate North Karnataka state was politically motivated.

Speaking to reporters here on Tuesday, the DCM said that if there were lapses in development issue, it could be rectified. But it is not fair to raise voice for a separate state keeping the issues like land, water and language. Unification of Karnataka was happened based on the linguistic issue. A number of people had sacrificed their lives and fought for the unification of the state. Such fights for separate state would kill the very purpose of the unification of Karnataka, the DCM said.

During SM Krishna period, Nanjundappa Committee was constituted to eradicate regional imbalance in the state. The Committee had given a report saying that 114 taluks were backward. Based on the report, the governments have been introducing various programmes. In spite of it, there were some laggings in North Karnataka region. The government would take necessary steps to overcome them. But it was not fair to raise the voice in favour of the separate state, said Parameshwar.

“The postmortem report of Lakshmivara Tirtha Swamiji of Shiroor Mutt was reached the police. Now, FSL report is expecting to know the reason for the death”.

-          Dr G Parameshwar, DCM



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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.