73-year-old man arrested for sexual assault of minor
The Hindu
A 73-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday on the charges of allegedly sexually assaulting a minor girl, a class III student.
The police said that the man, a resident of Gandhi Managar, had been running a grocery store in the locality. The girl from the area went to the store a few days ago and the man allegedly assaulted her sexually inside the store. The girl ran out of the store shouting for help and her elder brother, who was playing nearby, informed the parents about the incident.A crowd comprising farmers, researchers, professors, students, and horticulture enthusiasts thronged the ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR), Hesaraghatta, Bengaluru, on Friday for the inaugural ceremony of the Triphal Diversity Show which showcased 300 mango, 100 jackfruit, and 100 banana genotypes in collaboration with ICAR-National Research Centre for Banana, Tiruchirappalli.
The State government on Friday constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT), headed by Additional Director-General of Police, Manish Kharbikar of the Economic Offences division of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to probe the alleged multi-crore scam in the government-run Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation.