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BENGALURU
In his statement to the police, Irshad Khan, a sales executive, said that he was in a relationship with his sister-in-law and wanted to marry her. However, realising that his wife and other family members would object to it, he hatched a plan to get his sister-in-law tainted as a victim of sexual assault.
During the interrogation, he told the police that by doing this, he hoped that the woman’s prospective alliances would turn her down, which would then allow him to seek her hand in marriage.
Irshad further revealed that he hatched the plan after seeing the footage of the Kammanahalli molestation case in which a north-eastern girl was groped and molested by two men.
The Bengaluru east division police managed to crack the case in less than 42 hours after the alleged victim in the case started contradicting her statements.
On January 6, CCTV camera of a residential building captured images of a woman being stalked by a man following which the woman alleged that she was groped and molested. The woman also alleged that the perpetrator injured her and was given treatment at a local hospital. Initially reluctant, the woman filed a complaint with the local police. With recent incidents of alleged mass molestations and the graphic Kammanahalli molestation video going viral, the police initiated action immediately in this case.
Police began suspecting foul play when the woman started to change her statements and attempted to confuse the investigating authorities. Further investigations revealed that the perpetrator in the case was the woman’s brother-in-law who had even accompanied her when she filed a case against ‘unknown person’.
KISSING PRANK: CASE REGISTERED
NEW DELHI: A case has been registered against a youth, who had uploaded a “prank” video on YouTube in which he could be seen kissing girls randomly and running away, for outraging modesty of women and publishing obscene material.
Dependra Pathak, joint commissioner of police (Southwest) and Delhi Police spokesperson, said a case under sections 354 (Assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty) of the IPC and 67 IT Act (Punishment for publishing or transmitting obscene material in electronic form) has been registered against Sumit Verma, whose YouTube channel goes by the title “The Crazy Sumit”. PTI
