Five arrested for molesting minor girl , sharing obscene videos on social media
Odisha police on Monday arrested five persons for molesting minor girl and had uploaded objectionable video on social media platforms and had made it viral.
The arrested youths had molested the minor girl on June 14 during a picnic trip to Pentha sea beach under Rajnagar tehsil. Finding the girl alone, they had used force to drag her to a deserted spot in the casuarinas forest cover near the beach. Later they molested her. While being molested, they had video-graphed the sequence of torture of the victim in smart phones.
Later they had uploaded the video on social media network and had made the video viral on social media platform, said Inspector Rajnagar police station, Sukant Kumar Patra.
Police probed the matter following the complaint lodged by the victim girl’s father a couple of days back. The cyber crime wing of district police found the veracity of the allegation. After prima facie was found, the accused persons- Mani Mandal (25), Sukant Mandal (30), Akshaya Sethy (38), NImai Padhiary (34) and Sambhu Mandal (19) – were arrested. They have confessed to have committed the crime under the influence of liquor.
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The accused persons, booked under Indian Penal Code section 354 (outraging the modesty of woman or girl) , 292 (representation of person or any other object in obscene manner), 294 (obscene act), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt),506 (criminal intimidation), 509 (gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman), the protection of children from sexual offence act, 2012, Information Technology Act, 200, section- 67 and 67 (a), were later remanded to judicial custody.
As directed by state police headquarters, the district police are maintaining zero tolerance in cases of obscene photos or videos going viral on social media, police added.
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