French diplomat accused of sexually abusing minor daughter

June 15, 2012

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Bangalore, June 15: A case has been registered against a French diplomat here on a complaint by his wife that he had been sexually abusing their minor daughter, a senior police official said Friday.

"We have registered a case against Pascal Mazurier under section 376 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) on a complaint by his Indian housewife that he had been sexually abusing their four-year-old daughter," Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Ravikant Gowda told IANS.

Mazurier is the deputy head of chancery in the French consulate here. The case was registered late Thursday at the High Grounds police station, which is less than one km from the French consulate in the upscale Vasanthnagar.

"As the case is under investigation, the diplomat is being interrogated to verify the charges. We have not arrested the accused as we are waiting for the medical report of the child," Gowda said.

The alleged sexual abuse of the minor came to light when the diplomat's wife, who hails from Kerala, approached the Enfold Proactive Health Trust, a non-government organisation (NGO) here, for counselling as she was going through a trauma of being a mute witness to her husband abusing their child for weeks.

"The incident has been brought to our notice by a member of the NGO that the child's mother had accused her French husband of molesting their child," Karnataka Commission for Protection of Child Rights chairperson Nina Nayak told IANS.

The mother had taken her daughter to a state-run hospital for examination and a medical report for evidence of sexual abuse against the diplomat. "We have asked the NGO to take the child with her mother to a state-run hospital for examination and submit a report. In view of the sensitivity of the case and to protect their privacy, we will not be able to share details, like names etc, with the media," Nayak said.

The French Consulate in Bangalore declined to comment. "We have no comments as the consulate has nothing to do with a private incident," a spokesperson told IANS.

The couple have three children aged seven, four and a 20-month infant.

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June 6,2020

Kota (Rajasthan), Jun 6: A 14-year-old boy allegedly hanged himself to death on early Saturday morning shortly after he stopped playing PUBG throughout the night and went to sleep, said police. 

Railway Colony police station’s in-charge Hansraj Meena said the boy, a class 9 student and son of an Army man, was found hanging from the grill of the ventilator in his bedroom on early Saturday morning. 

Meena said according to the boy’s family members, the boy had downloaded the gaming programme on his mother’s mobile phone only three days back but had been playing the game virtually continuously for the last three days. 

He kept on playing the game till 3 am in a room in which his brother was studying, said Meena, adding the boy went to adjoining to sleep after that. His body was found hanging from the ventilator’s grill in the morning, he said, adding the boy was rushed to MBS Hospital, where he was declared “brought dead”. 

No suicide note was recovered in the case, the SHO said. The boy lived in Gandhi Colony in the city along with his mother and brother, while his father, a Tamil Nadu native and Army man, is currently posted in Arunachal Pradesh. The boy’s body has been kept in hospital’s morgue for the postmortem, the SHO said.

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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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March 26,2020

Puducherry,Mar 26: Congress legislator from Kamaraj Nagar constituency John Kumar has been booked on charges of violating lock-down rules, Lt Governor Kiran Bedi said on Thursday.

In a Whats app posting she further said that an FIR has been registered under the Disaster management Act.

She stated John Kumar in an irresponsible manner allowed more than 200 people to gather outside his house and distributed doles personally when lock down was enforced in the country.

A criminal case has been registered against him for blatant violation of law despite mass information and media messages.Instead of following the law, he chose to violate it,she further stated.

The LG added that as per the ground report by IGP Surendra Yadav, there was perceptible improvement in enforcement of lock down and public were aware and cooperative.Vehicles carrying essential supplies and personnel were moving and every day is an improvement.

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