Murugha Mutt seer booked for sexual harassment under POCSO Act
1 min readMysuru: In a bizarre development, Murugha Mutt Seer Sri Shivamurthy Murugha Sharanaru has been booked along with four others on the charges of sexual harassment.
The place of incident as per the first information report (FIR) is the hostel run by the Mutt in Chitradurga, but the case has been booked by Nazarbad police in Mysuru.
Following a complaint by Chandrakumar legal com probation officer of district child protection unit, Mysuru, late on Friday night at 10.30 PM, police registered the FIR against Murugha Mutt seer Dr Shivamurthy Murugha Sharana as the prime accused, along with hostel warden Rashmi, junior pontiff Basavaditya, leader Paramashivaiah and advocate Gangadharaiah.
In his complaint, Chandrakumar has alleged that “Shivamurthy Murugha Sharana was sexually harassing two girls of class 10 aged 16 years and 15 years for the past three-and-a-half years and two- and-a-half years respectively. The other accused in the case were assisting the prime accused”.
The victims narrated the afore mentioned ordeal when they were produced before child welfare Committee (CWC) and were subjected to counselling. The CWC directed the district child protection officer to take a suitable action.
Acting on the instructions of child protection officer, Chandrakumar lodged the complaint at Nazarbad police station.
The victims are temporarily accommodated at Odanadi Seva Samsthe on the instructions of CWC.
The case has been booked under POCSO Act 2012, IPC sections 376 (2 and 3) and 149.
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