Karnataka HC adjourns POCSO case against ex-CM Yediyurappa for a week
Bengaluru, Jul 26: The Karnataka High Court on Friday adjourned for a week former chief minister B S Yediyurappa’s petition to quash the POCSO case registered against him.
Yediyurappa had approached the high court against his arrest following a case registered against him under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.
The high court restrained the police from taking any precipitative action against the BJP veteran.
On Friday, the high court adjourned the matter for a week. With this, Yediyurappa got relief for a week from the arrest.
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A woman had complained to the police alleging that Yediyurappa sexually harassed her 17-year-old daughter when they went to meet him to address their grievances.
The police served him notice twice to depose before the investigation officer but he did not turn up.
Later, the police approached a city court, following which an arrest warrant was issued against Yediyurappa.
In the meantime, he approached the HC requesting it to quash the FIR stating that it was false.
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US VP JD Vance says Lebanon not part of ceasefire, calls it ‘misunderstanding’
Budapest/Washington: US Vice President J D Vance has said that Lebanon was never included in the ceasefire understanding with Iran, describing the confusion as a “legitimate misunderstanding”.
Speaking to reporters before departing from Hungary, Vance said, “I think the Iranians thought that the ceasefire included Lebanon and it just didn’t. We never made that promise.”
He stressed that the United States had not included Lebanon in the scope of the ceasefire at any stage.
His remarks come amid continued Israeli strikes in Lebanon, where more than 200 people were reported killed, even as ceasefire talks between Iran and the US move forward.
Vance said Israel had “offered … to check themselves a little bit in Lebanon because they want to make sure that our negotiation is successful”.
He warned that if Iran allows the situation in Lebanon to affect the negotiations, it could derail the talks.
“If Iran wants to let this negotiation fall apart in a conflict where they were getting hammered over Lebanon, which has nothing to do with them and which the United States never once said was part of the ceasefire, that’s ultimately their choice,” he said.
