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The father alleged that suspect shared a nude picture of his daughter on WhatsApp after which he started blackmailing her and pressuring her to meet him.A 19-year- old college student was arrested on Wednesday on charges of blackmailing and sexually assaulting a minor girl, a Class 11 student of a private school in the city. Deputy commissioner of police Upasana said the father of the minor girl in his complaint said the girl knew the suspect as they had studied in the same school. “The suspect cleared school last year and joined a college in Delhi. He often used to call her and also started stalking her,” she said. The father alleged that suspect shared a nude picture of his daughter on WhatsApp after which he started blackmailing her and pressuring her to meet him. “During one such coerced meeting, the suspect sexually and physically assaulted her and when she resisted, he threatened to kill her,” he said in his police complaint. Following the complaint, a case was registered aga...

After a 13-year-old victim of sexual assault passed away from a snakebite on July 25 in a hamlet in Tamil Nadu’s Tiruvallur district, a 78-year-old man has been detained. The girl’s sexual assault by the elderly man three months prior was only discovered after her death when a video of the abuse surfaced. However, they decided to disseminate it immediately since they thought the girl might have been murdered. Moreover, police detained at least eight youths on suspicion of spreading obscene material, and they later detained the elderly man on suspicion of sexually abusing the teen girl. Earlier, the girl attended a government school and was in 4th grade. On July 25 evening, after the girl’s final rites were performed, some youngsters in the hamlet were observed circulating a video among themselves that appeared to show the elderly man assaulting the minor girl.Apparently, a police officer claimed that the video showed the elderly man sexually assaulting the girl,...