The Central Bureau of Investigation on Thursday busted the international child pornography racket that was being run through WhatsApp with its members spread across 18 countries and arrested one person.
The agency arrested the main administrator of the WhatsApp group, a resident of Uttar Pradesh's Kannauj, where child pornography videos were allegedly circulated and registered a case against other members of a group for allegedly uploading and circulating of child pornography videos.
During the searches, it was found that the group consisted of more than 100 members from India and around 18 countries.
The officials said that some members of the WhatsApp group are spread globally including the US, Pakistan, China, Sri Lanka.
The agency has registered a case against five private persons who are residents of Delhi, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh under section 67B of the Information Technology Act, 2000.
Nikhil Verma, son of small worker in a jeweller, who is pursuing his graduation in commerce and is currently unemployed was arrested.
Verma was booked along with four others accomplices — Nafees Reza and Zahid of Delhi, Satyendra Om Prakash Chauhan of Mumbai and Adarsh of Noida.
The agency said that the searches led to the recovery of mobile phones, tablets and laptops containing the alleged incriminating material depicting children in obscene, indecent and sexually explicit acts.
The agency is carrying on with its investigation to locate other members and the group present in India and abroad
Earlier this year, the Centre informed the Supreme Court that around 3,500 websites hosting child pornographic content were blocked.
A women lawyers' body had earlier moved the apex court seeking blocking of all porn websites, saying that pornography 'corrupts' the mind of the young generation and leads them to commit crime against women and children. The intervention application filed by the Supreme Court Women Lawyers Association (SCWLA) had come after the Centre's decision to lift a ban on 857 porn sites.
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