Karnataka legislature rocked by issue of sexual assaults

A Police inspector was arrested today on charge of trying to dilute the case of alleged rape of a woman in a car, as the issue of recent series of sexual assaults here rocked both the Houses of Legislature.
Mohammad Rafique attached to Pulikeshinagar police station had been arrested, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah told reporters here, as the opposition BJP stepped up attack on government in the Assembly accusing it of trying to shield the policeman.
"It is a clear case of omission. He is arrested today," Sidddaramaiah said, adding it was for the first time that an Investigating Officer had been arrested in such a case.

The inspector was booked under section 166 (A) of the Indian Penal Code relating to non-recording of FIR regarding sexual offences as complained by the rape victim.
The provision is stated to have been invoked for the first time in the state since an amendment was made to IPC after the rape and fatal assault of a 23-year-old woman physiotheraphy intern in Delhi in 2012.
In the July 10 midnight incident, a 22-year-old woman who was sitting in a car with her friend near her apartment was allegedly abducted and raped by one of the four men who forcibly got into their car and took them away in the same vehicle to a nearby railway track and committed the crime.

The main accused, son of a local BSP leader, has been arrested.
In the Assembly, BJP members staged a walkout after they were dis-satisfied with the reply of Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on the July 10 incident and also on the rape of a 6-year-old girl student in a public school here which happened on July 2 but came to light on July 15.
The alleged rape of the minor girl by "unknown persons" at Vibgyor High School continued to evoke protests today by parents, who alleged involvement of its staffers, and some local pro-Kannada organisations in front of the institution.