 "Senior BJP leader, K'taka ex-CM Yediyurappa booked under Pocso Act")
Senior BJP leader and former Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa has been booked under the POCSO Act based on a complaint by the mother of a 17-year-old survivor, police said here on Friday.
The survivor's mother alleged that 81-year-old Yediyurappa sexually assaulted her daughter during a meeting on February 2.
According to police, the BJP stalwart has been booked under section 8 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offence (POCSO) Act and Section 354 A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
There was no reaction from Yediyurappa or anyone in his family on the complaint lodged against him at the Sadashivanagar police station.
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