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4 teens held for molestation of minor, sent to remand home

TNN
July 23, 2017

Bengaluru, Jul 23: Four minor boys, including two school dropouts, were on Saturday taken into custody in connection the alleged molestation of a 13-year-old girl on July 10. They were booked under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and handed over to the remand home following a complaint filed by the girl's mother.rape

According to the complainant, the four boys, including two class IX students, had waylaid her daughter when she was en-route to her grandmother's house last Monday and assaulted her when she tried to resist.

Survivor identifies attackers

On Friday night, a special team detained the main accused, a 14-year-old boy who was hiding in a relative's house in Hubballi. The boy had reportedly proposed to the girl and attacked her after she refused to become his girlfriend, sources said. He had left for Hubballi after the girl's mother approached police.

"On Saturday, the girl identified the four accused and narrated what they did to her on July 10. Three of them had kicked her in abdomen when she refused to accept the proposal of their friend," police said.

They took her to graveyard

On July 10 evening, when the girl was walking back home from school, the four boys allegedly dragged her to a graveyard off the road. The 14-year-old boy proposed her and when she rejected, the trio started kicking her. The boy bit her on the cheek, saying no one should like her in future. When the girl raised an alarm, passersby rushed to her help. The boys had then fled. The girl, who did not reveal the incident to her family, was taken to a hospital on Thursday after she complained of abdomen pain. After the doctor found it to be medico legal case, it was referred to Ramamurthynagar police who registered a case after taking statement from the girl's mother.

Cases against minors

This is the second major case of minors from Bengaluru being involved in a congnizable offence in four months. With the arrest of the four, the number of minors being booked for heinous crimes this year rose to seven. In March, three class X students in Yelahanka, north-east Bengaluru, were arrested for allegedly stabbing their classmate to death over a trivial issue.

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February 16,2020

Five Bajrang Dal activists have been arrested for allegedly indulging in vandalism in the city on Valentines Day, police said.

They said about 10 to 15 activists on two wheelers vandalised a shop in Kattupalli area in Hyderabad on February 14.

They held aloft flags and raised slogans against celebration of Valentines Day and "created havoc" at different malls, a police press release said.

On receiving information, police rushed to a mall, but the Bajrang Dal activists escaped from the spot.

Five of them were later identified with the help of CCTV footage and arrested, police said.

The others too have been identified and efforts were on to nab them, police said.

Two cases have been registered against them under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code on a complaint from shop owners, the release said.

 

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February 16,2020

Gorakhpur, Feb 16: Two unidentified policemen allegedly raped a 20-year-old woman in a hotel room near a railway station in Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur.

The incident took place on Thursday after which the woman informed her family members. The FIR was registered in the matter on Friday, police said.

A case under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) including gang rape has been registered against two unidentified police men at the Gorakhnath police station, they said.

No arrests have been made so far in this connection, the police added.

Members of various political parties including Congress, Samajwadi Party, BSP and Purvanchal Sena staged a sit-in demonstration at the office of the district magistrate (DM) demanding suspension of all staff members of the Gorakhnath police station as well as a magisterial probe into the matter.

"The girl is undergoing treatment at the district hospital. She has made serious allegation of rape by two policemen. During investigation we found that the hotel has CCTV footage and also took the statement of guard," SSP Gorakhpur, Sunil Kumar Gupta said.

"Prima facie, the woman went to the hotel room willingly with some men. However, a probe is underway and culprits won't be spared," he said.

The woman told media that both the policemen thrashed her and accused her of being involved in prostitution.

She claimed that she requested them to leave her but they beat her and raped her. Later, they asked her to go home in an autorickshaw.

The survivor also told media and investigating policemen that she will be able to identify the hotel room where the crime took place as well as the two policemen who allegedly raped her.

The woman said she runs coaching classes at her home and her father is a labourer.

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July 22,2020

Mathura, Jul 22: A local court in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura on Wednesday sentenced 11 policemen, including the then Deputy Superintendent of Police, to life imprisonment in a case pertaining to the murder of royal Raja Man Singh in 1985.

District Judge Sadhana Rani Thakur announced the life imprisonment sentence a day after holding them guilty of the killing. Three policemen were, however, acquitted. Four men died during the trial.

The policemen were convicted under Section 302 (murder), 148 (rioting) and 149 (Every member of unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object) of the Indian Penal Code.

The verdict comes 35 years after Man Singh was killed. He, along with two others, was shot dead in police firing a day after he crashed his jeep into the then Rajasthan Chief Minister Shiv Charan Mathur's helicopter in a fit of anger.

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