We have lost total earnings, help us: farmers tell Central Flood Assessment Team in Karnataka
BELAGAVI: Having suffered losses due to floods, the farmers poured their woes before the Central team that had come to the district on Tuesday to assess the flood damage and submit the report to the Union Government.
The farmers who met the team members during their visit tried to convey the officials about their loss and sought adequate relief from the government.
“I was earning at least Rs 3 lakh from an acre of land by cultivating carrots. But the floods have washed away my total crop. What should I do, how should I cover this loss”, said one of the farmers of Hosur village in Hukkeri taluk.
The farmers of Ingali village showed their maize crop which was destroyed in the floods.
Several elected representatives who had joined the team, explained the loss incurred by the farmers due to floods to the team. Former Minister, Shashikant Naik and MLC Mahantesh Kavatagimath told the team about farmers losing Soybean crops due to the natural calamity.
During their visit to Badakundri village, the farmers informed the team about loss to their soybean crop.
One of the farmers said that he had cultivated soybean in 1.17 acre land, but just when the crop was coming to the harvesting stage, the flood destroyed the crop which caused huge loss to him. He said he was expecting at least 15 quintals of soybene from his farm.
Deputy Commissioner, M. H. Hiremath who was with the team, said that some 30 hectare crop in the village has been destroyed. The team collected details about the loan borrowed by the farmers from the bank for cultivation.
The villagers demanded the officials to release compensation to the houses damaged in the last floods.
The team also visited a bridge at Lolsur village which had been damaged due to floods.
Hiremath told the team about the loss to infrastructure such as roads and bridges. He requested the team to grant funds for restoration of these infrastructure.
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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.
