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KOLKATA: A 48-year-old YouTuber from Bengal with astir 4.3 cardinal followers and his teenage lad were arrested successful North 24 Parganas district’s Haroa connected Sunday for allegedly raping a 15-year- aged miss aft luring her with the committedness of featuring her successful drama and creation reels.
The survivor’s begetter is simply a bull attached to Kolkata Police. Basirhat sub-divisional tribunal remanded Arabindu Mondal successful constabulary custody for 5 days and sent his lad to a juvenile offenders’ home. Investigators said begetter and lad approached the Class 9 pupil respective months agone with an connection to marque shorts with her. The miss went with them to assorted locations for shoots, and the 2 allegedly filmed and photographed her secretly erstwhile she was changing.
“The duo utilized this to blackmail her into soundlessness aft repeated intersexual assault. Arabindu’s lad adjacent enactment vermillion connected the portion of her hairsbreadth to suggest helium would wed her, past raped her,” a constabulary serviceman said. Sources said the girl’s family, who knew and trusted Arabindu, had nary inkling of what she was being subjected to until she confided successful them. The suspects were arrested instantly aft Haroa constabulary presumption registered an FIR nether the Pocso Act connected Sunday and recorded the survivor’s statement. Investigators seized phones, cameras and different devices from Arabindu, who runs 2 YouTube channels —one for videos and shorts of him performing skits, and different wherever helium dances to Hindi and Bengali songs.
