Tamil Nadu: Man arrested for sharing child porn

COIMBATORE: The Karumathampatti police arrested a 29-year-old man from Kaaduvettipalayam on the city outskirts on Wednesday for sharing child porn videos on social media platforms.
The accused was identified as C Ranganathan. He works for a private company, police sources said. “He had been watching child porn videos for almost a year. He had also created a fake Facebook ID to upload the videos and to share them with other people. The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children had traced his activities on social media and monitored him. We arrested him from his residence based on their tip-off,” a police officer said.
A first information report under sections of 67 A, 67 B IT Act r/w 15(1) of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012 has been filed.
Ranganathan was produced before the judicial magistrate and was lodged in prison till May 20.