BJP veteran B S Yediyurappa
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Bengaluru: Karnataka police chief Alok Mohan, on Friday, asked the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to take over the investigation into the POCSO case against former Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa. A senior officer from the CID confirmed to DH that they have been asked to take over the case through a letter from the state DG&IGP, Alok Mohan, but official hand over of the investigation is yet to happen.
Late Thursday night, a 53-year-old woman filed a complaint with the Sadashivanagar police that former CM and BJP leader Yediyurappa sexually assaulted her minor daughter. On Friday afternoon, the Sadashivanagar police visited Yediyurappa’s house and conducted a preliminary probe.
The FIR, filed by the resident of Akshay Nagar in South Bengaluru, alleges that Yediyurappa touched her 17-year-old girl inappropriately and molested her. The complainant told the police that the incident happened when she visited Yediyurappa’s house in Sadashivanagar on February 2.
The woman claimed that she visited Yediyurappa to get a rape case transferred to a Special Investigation Team (SIT). Explaining the delay in filing the complaint, the woman told police that she was afraid and couldn't muster enough courage to lodge a complaint.
The Sadashivanagar police have registered the FIR under Prevention of Children From Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and under IPC Section 354A (Sexual harassment and punishment for sexual harassment).