MAN GETS 5-YR JAIL FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT ON GIRL
HYDERABAD: A local court on Monday sentenced a 48-year-old man to five-years Rigorous Imprisonment for sexually assaulting his adopted 13-yearold daughter in 2015. The Additional District Sessions Judge at L B Nagar found the man guilty under relevant sections of the Pocso and the Indian Penal Code. He was also slapped with a fine of ~2,500, the police said. The prosecution said the couple adopted the girl as they did not have any children.
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Left front government in Kerala on Monday decided to inform the Centre it would not cooperate wi t h t h e u p d a t i o n o f t h e National Population Register (NPR), saying there were fears among the public about the process and it has the “Constitutional responsibility” to alleviate them and ensure law and order.
A special cabinet meeting, chaired by chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan here, decided to inform the Registrar General and Census Commissioner under the Union home ministry that it was unable to cooperate with anything with regard to the updation of the NPR.
“The decision was taken as i t was t he Const i t ut i o na l responsibility of the government to alleviate the fears of general public and ensure law and order situation in the state,” a Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) release said.
However, the state would fully cooperate with the census procedures, it said.
The LDF government, which has been on a warpath against the Centre over the Citizenship Amendment Act, has last month stayed all activities related to updation of NPR, considering ‘apprehensions’ of public that it would lead to NRC in t he wake of t he controversial CAA.
“As the NPR is a process that leads to the National Register of Citizens (NRC), there is a sense of fear among the people that its implementation could lead to widespread insecurity”, the CMO release said on Monday.
The experience of the state which had already compiled the NRC was an example for this, it added, in apparent reference to
Assam.
Kerala had already stopped all procedures regarding the NPR updation, the release said adding there was also a report of the state police that the if the government went ahead with the procedures, i t woul d adversely impact the law and order situation.
The district collectors have also informed the government that the Census procedures would be affected if the updation of the NPR was done along with it, the CMO release said.
The CPI(M)-LED LDF government had recently convened a meeting of political parties and socio-religious organisations here on December 29 in the wake of the concerns among people in various stratas of the society, it said.
A special assembly session was convened and a resolution was passed requesting the Centre not to implement the CAA and the government had also approached the apex court against the law, it added.