A self-styled seer in Yadgir district has been booked under the Pocso Act after a video purportedly showing him inappropriately touching a seven-year-old girl at his shrine was circulated widely on social media, drawing public outrage, police said on Thursday. Pocso case against seer after KSCPCR takes note of video “Notice has been issued to him. We will carry on with the investigation. The parents and the girl have recorded their statements; they did not find anything wrong in his touch, and they themselves recorded the video. However, the footage shows the child appearing uncomfortable. After counselling, the Child Welfare Committee recommended the registration of an FIR,” the Yadgir superintendent of police, Pruthvik Shankar said. The accused, Mallikarjuna Muthya, 26, also known as Mallikarjun Mutya, runs the Mahal Roja Mutt in Shahapur taluk of Yadgir district. Police registered the case after the video, recorded on February 19 at the mutt, surfaced online and drew criticism. The footage purportedly shows the man seated inside the shrine in Shahapur with the girl sitting on his lap. He …