Maluru: Girl killed while returning from school
Rape suspected
Maluru, August 01: A 10th standard girl student who was on her way back home from the school was killed near Maluru railway station on Wednesday evening.
The girl is identified as the student of BGS School and resident of Indira Nagar in the taluk. After going home along with her friend from the school, a stranger has allegedly kidnapped her. But her friend who ran away to her house after the incident did not inform anybody about the issue, it is said.
The body of the girl has scratches and head injuries. The locals suspected that she was raped and killed later. But the police did not reveal anything so far. When she did not come home even after late in the evening, her father and locals have searched her. But they found her body at a bush near the railway station. Her body was taken to the government hospital for postmortem. As soon as the news spread, people and relatives thronged the hospital. Later, locals and organizations staged a protest in front of the hospital, blocked the road. As a result, the traffic movement was hampered for a while. After the police who rushed to the spot, promised of arresting the accused, the locals called off their protest.
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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.
