Man shares child porn, arrested

Coimbatore: A 40-year-old man was arrested for uploading and sharing child pornography on social media.
Police identified the accused as K Balakrishnadass alias Balaji, of Rajaji Road at Ram Nagar. A bachelor, he is engaged in printing flex banners.
A police officer said Balaji was in the habit of watching child pornography on mobile phone. “He used to download the videos for watching them again. On August 15 evening, he uploaded some videos on a pornography website and shared them with his friends on social media.”
The National Crime Records Bureau and National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children, meanwhile, collected the internet protocol address of the device that Balaji used to upload and share child pornography and sent that to the officials of crime against women and children in Chennai.
Officials in Chennai shared the details with the city cybercrime police who on Wednesday traced Balaji, picked him up and handed him over to Kattoor police sub-inspector Muthu.
Balaji was subsequently booked under Sections 67A (punishment for publishing or transmitting of material containing sexually explicit act, etc., in electronic form) and 67B (punishment for publishing or transmitting of material depicting children in sexually explicit act, etc., in electronic form) of the Information Technology Act, 2000, and Section 15(1) (punishment for storage of pornographic material involving child) of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act. TNN