MAN HELD FOR RAPING GIRL IN GR NOIDA

Noida (UP): A man has been arrested for allegedly abducting and raping a 15-year-old girl in Greater Noida last week, police said on Wednesday. The suspect, who is in his twenties, and the girl lived in the same neighbourhood in Dadri area of Uttar Pradesh’s Gautam Buddh Nagar district. The girl had gone out of her home with her younger sister, aged 9, on January 31, police said. While returning, she was waylaid by the suspect, who assaulted the younger sister and then eloped with the teenager, according to the complaint. Initially the police had lodged a case of kidnapping, but the rape charge and provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act were later added, according to a police statement. The youth was held on Tuesday evening, it said, adding that further proceedings were being carried out.

Mumbai: The Mumbai police has arrested one more person, who directed nude films for OTT platforms, in connection with a pornographic films racket busted last week, taking the total number of those held in the case so far to nine, including an actress, an official said on Wednesday. The city crime branch’s property cell nabbed the ninth accused, aged 40 years, from Surat in Gujarat on Tuesday night, he said, adding the accused used to direct films that cast actors in nude and send them to OTT (over-the-top) platforms. This accused has been involved in such acts for a year, the official said. He was produced before a court here, which remanded him in police custody till February 15. Last week, the police’s property cell conducted a raid on a bungalow at Madh in Malwani area here and busted a racket of making pornographic films.