Indore: Three members including an engineering graduate and a class XII student were arrested on Tuesday by cyber cell officials in connection with running an international child pornography group on social media. The group is being run by the mobile number of a person of Indian origin who is based in Kuwait.
Superintendent of police (cyber cell) Jitendra Singh said that the research wing of cell had received information during surveillance that a group of child pornography is being run at international level by certain people on WhatsApp. During the investigation, it was revealed that the group admin has been adding many people including minors in his group to circulate pornographic content on social media. The group being run in the name of ‘Kids only Sex’ has three members from MP. Three teams were constituted to nab the accused.
The police have registered a case under Section 67-B of IT Act against unidentified persons. On Tuesday, the police teams arrested 24-year-old Makrand Salunke, a resident of Dharnaka area in Mhow, Omkar Singh Rathore of Sardarpur district Dhar and their minor accomplice. Makrand is an engineering graduate and is employed in a company in Pithampur. Accused Omkar runs utensils shop while minor boy is the student of class XII.
During investigation, accused told police that they demanded obscene videos from members of the group. Further investigation is on in the case. Singh further said that the child pornography group is being run globally on social media for a long time. It has also been revealed that some other child pornography groups are also active and people from about 28 countries are associated with those groups.