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The Hindu
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- Politics
- The Hindu
Protest planned in Kalaburagi over sexual assault on minor
The Sakal Hindu Samaj, a consortium of various organizations, has announced a mass protest in Kalaburagi on Tuesday against the sexual assault on a minor in Nandikur Tanda on the outskirts of Kalaburagi. Members of the samaj Divya Hagaragi and Ramchandra Jadhav, addressing the press here on Sunday, said that the religious heads of various mutts, community leaders and several organizations will join the protest march from Jagat Circle to Deputy Commissioner's office. Ms. Hagaragi urged citizens to unite for the 'safety of our daughters'. She said that the accused, Waseem Shaikh, sexually assaulted the minor girl from Nandikur Tanda three weeks ago. Later, the accused, along with his parents and relatives, barged into the victim's house and harassed the girl's parents using abusive language and even forced them to get their daughter married to Waseem Shaikh, she said. A case has been lodged under the Prevention of Children from Sexual Offences (PoCSO) Act at the Gulbarga University Police Station.
Time of India
13-06-2025
- Time of India
Youth held for ‘kidnapping, raping' teen
Ludhiana: A youth was Friday arrested for allegedly kidnapping and raping a girl, a minor, of his locality. The girl's mother told police that her daughter went to a grocery store to get some ration on June 9, but did not return home. They frantically searched for her, but to no avail. She came back home the next morning and narrated her ordeal, the mother said. Following a complaint from the mother of the girl, a 16-year-old, police lodged an FIR against the accused. Charges under BNS sections 137 (2) (kidnapping), 96 (procuration of child), 64 (punishment for rape) of BNS and Section 4 of Prevention of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act have been pressed against him. tnn Follow more information on Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad here . Get real-time live updates on rescue operations and check full list of passengers onboard AI 171 .
Indian Express
13-06-2025
- Indian Express
Police officers who cracked bank robbery, minor's rape murder in Pune get Union Home Minister's Medal
* In October 2021, a group of five armed men looted cash and gold worth Rs 2.3 crore at gunpoint from the Bank of Maharashtra in Pimperkhed village in Shirur taluka of Pune district. An FIR was lodged at the Shirur police station in Pune rural. A team led by the then police inspector Sureshkumar Raut (now posted at Latur as deputy superintendent of police) nabbed the five robbers. Cops recovered almost all the cash and gold robbed by the accused. * In February 2021, a two-and-half-year-old girl was raped and murdered at a village in Pune district. An FIR was lodged against the accused under IPC sections 302, 376 and sections of the Prevention of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. A team led by assistant police inspector Manoj Pawar (now posted at Solapur rural) nabbed the accused, who was later awarded death sentence by the court. * In June 2021, a gang of robbers attacked a 75-year-old doctor and his 68-year-old wife at their residence in Lonavala, while they were asleep in the midnight hours. The robbers tied the elderly couple, gagged them and looted cash and jewellery worth nearly Rs 66 lakh at knife-point from their house. An FIR was lodged at the Lonavala city police station in Pune rural. Within a week, a team led by inspector Dilip Pawar (now posted at Kolhapur) nabbed a gang of 20 and recovered the robbed valuables. Police officers Sureshkumar Raut, Manoj Pawar and Dilip Pawar are among the 11 cops from Maharashtra who were awarded the Union Home Minister's Medal for Excellence in Investigation for the year 2022, at the hands of state's Director General of Police Rashmi Shukla, during a ceremony at the Centre for Police Research (CPR) in Pune, on Friday. The other officers who got the Union Home Minister's Medal for Excellence in Investigation include Deputy Commissioner of Police Krishnakant Upadhyay, senior police inspector Pramod Toradmal, police inspector Deepshikha Ware of Mumbai police, Superintendent of Police Ashok Virkar of ATS, Mumbai, Deputy Superintendent of Police Ajit Patil of Solapur rural, assistant police inspector Rani Kale of State Intelligence Department (SID), Navi Mumbai, of Mumbai police, senior police inspector Jitendra Wankoti and police inspector Sameer Ahirrao of Vasai Virar. State CID chief Sunil Ramanand, Commissioner of Pune City police Amitesh Kumar, Commissioner of Pimpri Chinchwad police Vinaykumar Choube, Additional Director General of Police (prisons) Suhas Warke, Special Inspector General of Police (CID) Rajendra Dahale, Special Inspector General of Police (Kolhapur) Sunil Fulari, Rajendra Dahale, Superintendent of Pune rural police Sandeep Singh Gill and other senior police officers were present on the occasion.
New Indian Express
12-06-2025
- New Indian Express
Karnataka HC refuses to quash POCSO case against faculty of research centre
BENGALURU: Refusing to quash proceedings against a faculty of the central premier research institute in the city who has been booked under the provisions of the Prevention of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act for his alleged sexual assault on a 10-year-old girl, the Karnataka High Court directed the special court to conclude the trial within three months since considerable time has been passed after the incident. 'The allegation is that the daughter of the complainant was playing and the petitioner, an Assistant Professor, was standing behind the window screen. After some time, the petitioner comes and touches the hips and further touched the private parts of the daughter with the clothes on. This is one statement. The other statements are identical in that the petitioner has touched them in the same manner that he has touched the daughter of the de facto complainant... The law is well settled that even one credible statement - if sufficient - can call for a trial,', said Justice M Nagaprasanna while rejecting the petition filed by the accused faculty. According to the complaint dated September 30, 2018, the accused is an Assistant Professor. When his nine-year-old daughter wanted to celebrate her birthday, all the neighbouring apartment residents near the research institute were invited.
Hindustan Times
05-06-2025
- Hindustan Times
Haryana man held for raping kids, sharing videos
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested a man from Hisar in Haryana for allegedly raping children and creating, uploading, browsing, collecting, and exchanging child sexual abuse material online, the agency said on Wednesday. The activities of the accused, identified as Somnath, were detected through an Interpol database. 'In furtherance to its strong commitment in combating the menace of child sexual exploitation and bring the perpetrators to justice, CBI has arrested the accused from district Hisar, Haryana, on allegations of committing rape, penetrative sexual assault etc on multiple minor victims,' the federal agency said in a statement. CBI arrested Somnath from his residence in Hisar and recovered incriminating gadgets on Tuesday. It found he allegedly raped, sexually assaulted, threatened and used multiple children for pornography. The agency said it registered a case on May 29 after detecting Somnath's activities while examining videos and images on the Interpol's International Child Sexual Exploitation (ICSE) database. The ICSE is an intelligence and investigative mechanism that allows investigators to share data on child sexual abuse cases across 70 countries, including India. The database has helped identify 42,300 victims and 18,300 offenders. CBI said it detected the child sexual abuse on its own, as the victims or their families did not report the incidents to police or any law enforcement agency. 'Demonstrating qualitative investigative skills, due diligence, and procedural efficiency, CBI detected CSAM [child sexual abuse material] images and videos from the Interpol's ICSE database…,' CBI said. The agency added that the material was also linked with the Google-generated cyber tipline reporting on child sexual exploitation and submitted to the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C). 'The analysis of the images and videos using cyber forensic tools revealed the location of the incident to district Hisar in Haryana, depicting multiple victims of sexual assault and abuse by the accused,' CBI said. Somnath was arrested three months after CBI in March launched operation 'Hawk' to dismantle the cybercrime networks involved in online child sexual exploitation with international linkages based on inputs from the US. Hisar police said they did not have any information about the crime. 'We heard about accused Somnath on TV channels and we have no inputs about him,' Hisar police spokesperson Vikas Kumar said. Child sexual abuse is punishable in India under the Prevention of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act, the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), while the Information Technology Act provides for punishment for publishing, browsing, or transmitting child pornography. In 2018, the Supreme Court asked the government to frame guidelines to eliminate child pornography, rape and gang-rape imageries, videos and sites from content hosting platforms and applications. An ad-hoc Rajya Sabha committee in February 2020 recommended the identification of the originators of such content. The panel studied the issue of pornography on social media and its effect on children and society. As part of the Centre's steps, the internet service providers are mandated to protect children from sexual abuse. The government blocks the websites containing child sexual abuse material based on Interpol's 'worst-of-list' which CBI periodically shares. The Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules mandate intermediaries to remove or disable access within 24 hours of receipt of complaints of contents that exposes the private areas of individuals, show them in full or partial nudity or in sexual act or is in the nature of impersonation, including morphed imagery. The complaints about cybercrimes against women and children can be filed on the national cyber portal (
