Temple priest arrested for sodomising minor

INDIA
Hindustan Times

A temple priest was arrested late in the evening on Saturday for sodomising a minor in Lehnu village in Trikri area of Udhampur. According to reports, a well known ‘mahant’ of a temple situated at village Lehnu on the Jammu-Srinagar highway was arrested by the police on allegations of sexual assault of a minor boy who is under treatment at Government Medical College, Jammu.

As per the police, a few members of a Jammu-based NGO filed an FIR at Tikri police station demanding the arrest of mahant Kamal Giri alleging that he had sexually assaulted a minor boy in his ashram for several days.

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