London, Aug. 31 (PTI): Two Indian-origin men are among six persons who have been jailed in Britain for paying or offering to pay a 16-year-old girl for sex.
A Leicester court heard how the “vulnerable and damaged” British Sikh girl had been used as a “sexual commodity”.
Bharat Modhwadia, 25, was jailed for 16 months for paying for the sexual services of a child, inciting child pornography and trafficking the girl by driving her to a location for sex. Chandresh Mistry, 37, was jailed for eight months for attempting to pay for the sexual services of a child.
Mistry had used Facebook to arrange to have sex with the girl, but they did not have sex because he became aware of the police probe. The other four men got terms between eight months and five years.
Srinagar (PTI): Security forces killed five militants and foiled an infiltration bid along the LoC in Kashmir’s Kupwara on Saturday. “The combing operation is in progress… as there were reports that the group comprised six militants,” an army official said. On Friday, security forces killed five Hizb-ul militants in Ganderbal.
New Delhi (PTI): Two poems by Union minister Kapil Sibal will feature in an upcoming Hindi film, Dilli Gang, based on murders of senior citizens in Delhi. Sibal, 65, will recite the poems at the beginning and end of director Ashish Tyagi’s debut film. Sibal, who has brought out a collection of his poems in the book My World Within, said he was attracted to the film’s subject.
Visakhapatnam (PTI): The death toll in the fire at Visakhapatnam’s HPCL refinery on August 23 rose to 19 on Saturday with one more worker succumbing to burn injuries at a hospital. The victim was identified as G.V. Kumar.
