PUNE: The cybercrime police on Tuesday arrested two men on the charge of uploading a video depicting child pornography on a website in April last year.
After tracking the Internet Protocol (IP) address of the cellphone, which was used to upload the video clip, police arrested Raj Kiran Pattilal (24) of Guruwar Peth and Manojkumar Zallar Saroj (19) of Raviwar Peth.
The police found the link to the clip on Monday and started looking into it. They took suo motu cognisance of the clip and filed the case, first such in Pune after a Union government order. The case has been registered with the Khadak police station.
Around a month ago, the Union government traced 35,000 videos depicting child pornography on various websites. The government followed up on this finding by ordering every state government to take action against people involved in uploading or sharing child pornography, the cybercrime police said.
Prima facie probe revealed that almost 150 links or video clips related to child pornography were uploaded from Pune in the past one to one-and-a-half years.
Senior police inspector Jayram Paygude of the cybercrime police station told TOI, “School dropouts Pattilal and Saroj were employed at a utensil shop in Raviwar Peth. The duo had uploaded the video clip on a website from the shop in their free time. The two men did not create the video, they obtained it from someone else.”
In a similar case, the Wakad police on Tuesday booked a man for uploading pornographic videos of women and children on a social media site.
The identity of the man has not been established yet. However, the police have launched a manhunt.
The Wakad police said the man uploaded 20-25 pornographic videos on the site through his profile in a span of six months. The videos went viral within days, the police said.
The police have invoked provisions of the Information Technology (IT) Act and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act against the man.
The police have warned people against uploading videos related to child pornography on the Internet and sending it through Internet-based mobile messaging applications.
Anyone found in possession of digital or even computer-generated sexually explicit images that appear to depict a child will have to face punishment, as per the provisions proposed in the Protection of Children Against Sexual Offences Amendment Bill that was approved by the Union Cabinet on July 10, 2019.
After tracking the Internet Protocol (IP) address of the cellphone, which was used to upload the video clip, police arrested Raj Kiran Pattilal (24) of Guruwar Peth and Manojkumar Zallar Saroj (19) of Raviwar Peth.
The police found the link to the clip on Monday and started looking into it. They took suo motu cognisance of the clip and filed the case, first such in Pune after a Union government order. The case has been registered with the Khadak police station.
Around a month ago, the Union government traced 35,000 videos depicting child pornography on various websites. The government followed up on this finding by ordering every state government to take action against people involved in uploading or sharing child pornography, the cybercrime police said.
Prima facie probe revealed that almost 150 links or video clips related to child pornography were uploaded from Pune in the past one to one-and-a-half years.
Senior police inspector Jayram Paygude of the cybercrime police station told TOI, “School dropouts Pattilal and Saroj were employed at a utensil shop in Raviwar Peth. The duo had uploaded the video clip on a website from the shop in their free time. The two men did not create the video, they obtained it from someone else.”
In a similar case, the Wakad police on Tuesday booked a man for uploading pornographic videos of women and children on a social media site.
The identity of the man has not been established yet. However, the police have launched a manhunt.
The Wakad police said the man uploaded 20-25 pornographic videos on the site through his profile in a span of six months. The videos went viral within days, the police said.
The police have invoked provisions of the Information Technology (IT) Act and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act against the man.
The police have warned people against uploading videos related to child pornography on the Internet and sending it through Internet-based mobile messaging applications.
Anyone found in possession of digital or even computer-generated sexually explicit images that appear to depict a child will have to face punishment, as per the provisions proposed in the Protection of Children Against Sexual Offences Amendment Bill that was approved by the Union Cabinet on July 10, 2019.
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