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High Court Juvenile Justice Committee wants Tuesday’s file on a Krishna POCSO case that began as a missing-person FIR.

High Court Juvenile Justice Committee wants Tuesday’s file on a Krishna POCSO case that began as a missing-person FIR.

The High Court’s Juvenile Justice Committee has asked for a file. It has not written a conviction.

On Monday, 24 August 2026, the Juvenile Justice Committee of the Andhra Pradesh High Court sought details regarding the alleged sexual abuse of two minor girls in Krishna district. The Committee was acting on a published report of 10 August. It directed the police, the Child Welfare Committee, Juvenile Welfare officials and Women Development and Child Welfare Department officials to submit a detailed report by Tuesday, 25 August 2026. Tuesday’s deadline is live today. It stays tomorrow if the file is not yet public. A supervision order of this kind is a demand for paper. It is not a finding that the alleged offence is proved.

Officers were instructed to provide information on the registered case, the condition of the victims, the status of the investigation, and the details of the arrests. Those four heads are the Committee’s ask. This desk will not invent a medical finding, a chargesheet date, or a court committal that is not on this card. The children are not named here.

Krishna district Superintendent of Police Ch. Vidyasagar Naidu informed the Committee of the police version. Pedana police had initially registered a missing-person case. The file was later transferred to the Bandar Taluka station on 9 August, where the case was altered and the accused booked under kidnapping, the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, and other Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita charges. A missing-person first information report that is later altered is a change of sections. It is not, by itself, a trial finding.

Acting on a complaint by the parents of one of the victims, Krishna district police arrested auto-rickshaw driver M. Vamshi Kiran and his friend K. Siddhu. Police alleged the accused took the two girls to Rudravaram village in an auto-rickshaw and sexually abused them. A vehicle and mobile phones were seized, the Superintendent of Police added. Two arrests, a seizure of a vehicle and phones, and a police narrative of Rudravaram are the police version given to the Committee. They are allegations under investigation. They are not a conviction.

This desk will keep repeating the distinction. A Juvenile Justice Committee can demand a Tuesday report from the police and from child-welfare officers without deciding guilt. A Protection of Children from Sexual Offences booking is an agency act. It is not a proved offence until a competent court writes. No medical report is on this filing. None will be invented.

What this card is not must also be said. It is not a reprint of the 10 August published report as if that report were itself a court order. The 10 August cutting is the trigger the Committee cited. Monday’s news is the Committee’s demand for a Tuesday file. This desk will not turn a supervision clock into a “desk impact” slogan, and it will not put the children’s names on a public page.

Machilipatnam holds the Krishna district dateline. Pedana is the first-information-report station. Bandar Taluka is the station that altered the case on 9 August. Rudravaram is the village named in the police version. Form B and any poll date are not notified on this file.

Until Tuesday’s report is on the public record, the public ledger is a Monday Juvenile Justice Committee direction; a published report of 10 August as the trigger; a Tuesday, 25 August deadline for police, the Child Welfare Committee, Juvenile Welfare and Women Development and Child Welfare officials; a Krishna Superintendent of Police account of a Pedana missing-person case altered at Bandar Taluka on 9 August; two named accused, M. Vamshi Kiran and K. Siddhu, arrested on a parental complaint; a police allegation of sexual abuse at Rudravaram; and a seized vehicle and phones. Supervision is not conviction. The children stay unnamed.