
Six, including four juveniles, held for torturing minor boys
The Hindu
The Mahadevapura police have arrested a group of six persons, including four juveniles, who allegedly tortured minor boys and forced them to smoke on the premises of a government school on Saturday.Ac
The Mahadevapura police have arrested a group of six persons, including four juveniles, who allegedly tortured minor boys and forced them to smoke on the premises of a government school on Saturday.
According to the police, the victims, aged 11 and 12, who went to play on the government school premises in B. Narayanpaura on Saturday afternoon, were confronted by the accused who were smoking.
The accused, in a bid to rag the boys, forced them to smoke, and later tied them to a tree and also tortured them. The accused, after harassing the boys for some time, released them after they obliged, the police added.

In , the grape capital of India and host of the Simhastha Kumbh Mela every 12 years, environmental concerns over a plan to cut 1,800 trees for the proposed Sadhugram project in the historic Tapovan area have sharpened political fault lines ahead of local body elections. The issue has pitted both Sena factions against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which leads the ruling Mahayuti alliance in Maharashtra. While Eknath Shinde, Deputy Chief Minister and Shiv Sena chief, and Uddhav Thackeray, chief of the Shiv Sena (UBT), remain political rivals, their parties have found rare common ground in Tapovan, where authorities propose clearing trees across 34 acres to build Sadhugram and a MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Exhibitions) hub, as part of a ₹300-crore infrastructure push linked to the pilgrimage.












