Multi-crore property at locker: IT raids on BJP leader’s house
Bengaluru, July 30: The case of a multi-crore property found in a locker at Bowring Institute in the city is taking twists every day. It is reported that following this case, IT sleuths conducted raids on the house of a BJP leader on Monday.
The IT teams raided the house of BJP leader Prasad Reddy at Koramangala and it is said that the IT sleuths have raided his house as he has involved in the Shanti Nagar Housing Corporation scam. Earlier, there was information that the documents of properties belonged to BJP leaders. Now, the sources confirmed that those documents were belonging to Prasad Reddy. So, the IT sleuths raided his house. Now, the IT officials have been verifying the documents of properties and other assets, sources said.
It is said that Prasad Reddy has business links with Avinash Agarwal. Anushka Estate owned by Avinash has bought several sites from Prasad Reddy. In view of this, the IT sleuths conducted the raids, it is said.
Show-cause notice
Now Bowring Institute members have served a show-cause notice to Avinash Agarwal. A member said that in order to save the face of the club in the public, they have served the notice to Agarwal.
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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.
