Subramanya police registered a case towards unknown individuals for allegedly assaulting a Muslim man for roaming with a minor Hindu woman on the Kukke Subramanya, round 100 kilometres from Mangaluru district headquarters, police mentioned on Friday.
In line with police, the youth Afeed (20), from Kallugundi close to Sullia, got here with the minor woman to Kukke Subramanya temple on Thursday.
“Just a few youths seen the interfaith couple and questioned them whereas they have been going close to the Kumaradhara river. After they got here to know that the person and the woman have been from different communities, they allegedly assaulted them,” police mentioned.
Officers mentioned Afeed is present process remedy at a hospital in Sullia and filed a grievance with the Subramanya police, which registered a case towards 10-12 unknown individuals underneath sections 323 (assault), 324 (assault), 307 (try and homicide) and 365 (kidnap) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
A photograph of Afeed in his undergarment mendacity on the bottom with wounds from the assault has gone viral on social media.
Hours after the incident, the daddy of the 17-year-old minor woman, finding out within the second yr of a pre-university diploma, filed a grievance with Subramanya police alleging that Afeed tried to molest the woman whereas she was ready for a bus on the KSRTC bus stand.
The daddy alleged that the person adopted her for fairly a while and requested for her cellular quantity. When she refused to present, he allegedly tried to molest her taking her beside the river.
The police have registered a case underneath sections 506 (felony intimidation) and 354(B) (sexual assault) of the IPC and part 12 (sexual assault) of the Safety of Youngsters from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act towards Afeed.
In line with police, Afeed got here in touch with the woman by means of Instagram and chatted along with her for a yr. “We have now registered a case following each complaints and investigating. We have now recognized the assaulters and can arrest them quickly,‘’ Puttur deputy SP Veeraiah Hiremath instructed HT.
Upon enquiry, we discovered the woman is beneath the age of 18 years and filed a case underneath Pocso.