Newspaper owner accused of rape caught in Kashmir

COPS CLAIM TO HAVE SEIZED PORN CDS, HIGH-END CARS, LIQUOR BOTTLES AND BONES OF WILD ANIMALS DURING RAIDS ON HIS PROPERTIES

Bhopal:bhopal-based newspaper owner Pyare Miyan ,68, who was on the run after five girls and a woman accused him of rape was arrested in Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, the city police said here.

Earlier in the day, the police claimed to have seized porn CDS, high-end cars, liquor bottles and bones of wild animals among other things during raids on his properties.

“We had information from sources that he was in Srinagar. He was arrested in coordination with local police,” said superintendent of police (Bhopal South) Sai Krishna Thota.

Thota, who is heading the special investigation team which is probing the case, said a team had been sent to Srinagar and Miyan was likely to be brought here by Thursday morning.

Apart from a case of rape under the Indian Penal Code and offences under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO), the police also invoked the Excise Act and Wildlife

Act following seizure of liquor, an antler and bones of wild animals from his flats.

Sections of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act were also invoked as two of the minor girls belong to these communities, the police said.

The complainants had told the police that Miyan used to show them porn videos, he said.

“Four minor girls and a woman have filed complaints of rape against Miyan. The latest complaint was lodged by a minor girl at Koh-e-fiza police station on Tuesday,” Thota said.

During the last two days, the Bhopal administration razed a marriage hall and an apartment built illegally on government land by Miyan.