The Telangana Police have arrested two main accused from Karimnagar in Telangana after they were involved in the kidnapping of two minor girls on March 11 from Bahraich in Uttar Pradesh.
Child Protection Officer, Bathinda, Ravneet Kaur Sidhu said the girls were taking selfies outside Bathinda Central Jail and wanted to circulate them in their friend circles, adding that they had been influenced by Lawrence Bishnoi on social media.
The matter of the alleged sexual harassment of minor girls came to the fore on Saturday (March 4) during an inspection by the Child Welfare Committee State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (SCPCR) at the hostel where around 600 students are residing.
Highlighting the plight of religious minorities in Pakistan, a human rights group in a fresh report laid bare the rising number of cases of abduction, forced faith conversion, forced and child marriage of girls belonging to the minority Christian community.
Addressing a public meeting in Shimla ahead of the Assembly elections, on Wednesday, Chandel alleged that criminals have been emboldened on the watch of the BJP government, to the extent that they no longer spare minor girls.
They allegedly passed vulgar comments against two minor girl students of a Middle English School at Lala area on Saturday when they were travelling towards Hailakandi from Bilaipur area.