68% boys and 28% girls in Mangaluru colleges addicted to porn, reveals survey

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March 24, 2016

Mangaluru, Mar 23: : Around 68% of degree boy students watch rape and child porn seven hours per week, while 28% of degree girls in namma Kudla watch it on an average of three hours per week, according to Rescue, an NGO that conducted a survey on consequences of violent porn and teen porn.

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Giving details of the survey on Wednesday, Abishek Clifford, CEO, Rescue, said the survey was carried out in 25 colleges in the city, comprising 500 students. The target age was 16-21 years. "Around 38% boys watch violent porn, including on average 11 per week, while 1,900 new students start watching rape each year and during their PU/degree years, they will have seen 2,900 rapes!" said Abhishek, quoting the survey results.

This watching of porn inspires rape and illicit activities, a fact that students agreed on during the survey, while 78% students agreed that porn is progressive and addictive. Around 87% of respondents said it leads to sexual activities and according to the students, 32% are sexually active with their partners. "This is also leading to unwanted youth pregnancies. According to our survey, each year 1,000 teen girls in Mangaluru get pregnant and undergo abortions," said Abhishek.

Watching rape videos also provokes teens to actually rape someone. The survey reveals that 82% said watching rape gives rise to a desire to rape someone in reality. "Even if 10% act on this desire, it would mean we are training 160 new rapists a year in Mangaluru city," according to Abhishek. He added that 75% said it also inspires them to go to prostitutes, while 37% actually do it.

To avoid all this, banning teen and rape porn on the internet is the only solution. He said soon after completing the survey across India, the NGO would file a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) to ban such content from the internet. Asked where such content gets uploaded, Abhishek said it is done in foreign countries where trafficked girls are raped every day, as it is with child porn.

He added that in the past six years, more than 250 teen girls from Mangaluru are abducted by human traffickers and forced into sexual exploitation. "While 50% boys watch child porn, 70% of porn sites have such content." To combat the situation, awareness among teenagers and a complete ban of content from the web is the only solution, he pointed out.

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mohammad
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Thursday, 24 Mar 2016

First of all block all sexual and violent sites on internet. And file case on sharing such videos on social media and whatSapp. And most of all these responsible students ( children of good parents ) must have known the economic theory. When demand increases supply increases. So stop watching this and stop the demand. Stopping the demand will save many girls from being forced into such tragedies.

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December 1,2025

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Udupi, Dec 1: A horrific case of alleged rape has unfolded in Udupi, where a worker from a Hindutva organisation, previously arrested and released on bail for harassing a young woman, is now accused of waylaying and sexually assaulting her.

The arrested individual has been identified as Pradeep Poojary (26), a member of the Hindu Jagarana Vedike's Nairkode unit in Perdur.

Poojary had allegedly been relentlessly harassing the young woman, pressuring her to marry him. When she bravely stood up to him and refused his demands, she filed a formal complaint at the Hiriyadka police station. He was subsequently arrested in that initial harassment case but was later granted bail.

According to police reports, driven by the same malicious grudge, Poojary allegedly intercepted the woman again on November 29. While she was walking through a deserted area, the accused is claimed to have threatened her by grabbing her neck. When she again refused to marry him, he allegedly proceeded to rape her.

The survivor immediately informed her family about the traumatic assault. Following this, her parents lodged a complaint at the Udupi women’s police station.

Police arrested Poojary again and produced him before the court. He has since been remanded to judicial custody.

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December 7,2025

Mangaluru, Dec 7: A 34-year-old fruit and vegetable trader in Mangaluru has reportedly lost ₹33.1 lakh after falling victim to an online investment scam run through a fake mobile app.

Police said the scam began in September, when the victim received a link on Facebook. Clicking it connected him to a WhatsApp number, where an unidentified person introduced a high-return investment scheme and instructed him to download an app.

To build trust, the fraudster asked him to invest ₹30,000 on September 24. The trader soon received ₹34,000 as “profit,” convincing him the scheme was genuine. Over the next two months, he transferred money in multiple instalments via Google Pay and IMPS to different scanner codes and bank accounts shared by the scammers. Between September 24 and December 3, he ended up sending a total of ₹33.1 lakh.

When he later requested a refund of his investment and promised returns, the scammers demanded additional payments, claiming he needed to pay a “service tax” first. Even after he paid a small amount, no money was returned, and the scammers continued pressuring him for more.

A case has been registered at the CEN Crime Police Station.

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December 3,2025

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Mangaluru, Dec 3: A group of Congress workers gathered at the Mangaluru International Airport on Wednesday to welcome AICC general secretary K C Venugopal, but the reception quickly turned into a display of support for Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar.

Venugopal arrived in the city to participate in the centenary commemoration of the historic dialogue between Mahatma Gandhi and Narayana Guru. The event, organised by the Sivagiri Mutt, Varkala, in association with the Mangalore University Sri Narayana Guru Study Chair, is being held on the university’s Konaje campus.

KPCC general secretary Mithun Rai and several party workers had assembled at the airport to receive Venugopal. However, the moment he stepped out, workers began raising slogans backing Shivakumar.

The university programme will be inaugurated by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah.

This show of support comes just a day after Siddaramaiah remarked that Shivakumar would lead the government “when the high command decides.” The chief minister made the comment after a breakfast meeting at Shivakumar’s residence—another public display of camaraderie between the two leaders amid ongoing attempts by the party high command to downplay their leadership rivalry.

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