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  • BS Yediyurappa booked under POCSO
  • Yediyurappa allegedly sexually assault minor
  • Mother of 17-year-old filed complaint

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Senior BJP leader BS Yediyurappa booked for alleged sexual assault of minor

Former Karnataka CM BS Yediyurappa has been booked under the POCSO act. He allegedly sexually assaulted a minor.

Senior BJP leader BS Yediyurappa booked for alleged sexual assault of minor

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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