The lady was safely evacuated, and police have lodged a proper grievance in opposition to the accused.
Bharuch, Gujarat:
A younger girl, who runs a magnificence parlour in Gujarat’s Bharuch district, was held hostage at knife level by a person she had befriended on social media app Instagram.
The suspect, Prakash Dashrath, hailing from Patan, entered the lady’s magnificence parlour and threatened her with a knife after she refused additional communication with him.
In response to sources, “the sufferer had developed a friendship with Prakash by means of Instagram messages. Nevertheless, when the lady determined to chop off contact, Prakash grew enraged. He then visited her magnificence parlour, situated within the Vagra market space, and held her at knife level. Fearing for her life, the lady managed to message the parlour proprietor, alerting him to the scenario.”
“Upon receiving the misery message, the wonder parlour proprietor instantly knowledgeable the Vagra police. Cops arrived rapidly, broke by means of the parlour’s glass door, and rescued the lady. The suspect, Prakash Dashrath, was arrested on the scene. The lady was safely evacuated, and police have lodged a proper grievance in opposition to the accused.”
Following the incident, Police Sub-Inspector A.Okay. Jadeja of the Vagra police station issued a public advisory, urging individuals to be cautious when interacting with strangers on social media.
The officer mentioned that “such interactions can result in harmful conditions, as seen on this case. Authorities have additionally suggested the accountable use of social media platforms to keep away from related incidents sooner or later”.
In one other incident reported from Bharuch on Thursday, a bodily schooling instructor at a global faculty on Nationwide Freeway No. 48 has been sentenced to 10 years in jail for sexually assaulting a first-grade pupil in 2017.
The POCSO court docket delivered the judgment after listening to the compelling proof and arguments from the chief public prosecutor and reviewing medical experiences. Along with the jail sentence, the court docket imposed a positive of Rs 1.5 lakh on the instructor and ordered a compensation of Rs 2 lakh to be paid to the sufferer.
The incident occurred on December 12, 2017, when the sufferer attended her common faculty session from 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Her mom despatched her to highschool in a personal van round 6:15 a.m. Later that afternoon, the kid returned dwelling and confided in her household concerning the assault. Upon studying concerning the incident, the sufferer’s mom complained to the native police.
Following the grievance, the police arrested the accused, Prithvisinh Dilipsinh Ambaliya, and filed a cost sheet within the POCSO court docket.
The investigation revealed that the instructor had been concerned in a number of situations of misconduct with kids.
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