Gujarat: Usmanpura man caught with child porn on phone

AHMEDABAD: Cybercrime police of the city on Wednesday caught a 30-year-old man from the Usmanpura area for allegedly storing child pornography on his mobile phone.
In his FIR, Pravin Yadav, a constable with cybercrime police, said that several people are getting pornographic material from different sources. Cybercrime officers have instructed them to find persons who obtain illegal pornographic materials.
Yadav said they received a tip-off that a man from Usmanpura named Dhaval Shah, who works for a private company, had pornographic videos stored on his phone.
Acting on the tip-off, investigators went to Shah’s residence at Darshan Apartments near Panchsheel bus stop in Usmanpura, and confiscated his phone.
Yadav said they checked the phone in the presence of two panch witnesses and found several folders with pornographic videos. He said that videos in one of the folders could not be run on the phone, only on a computer.
When Yadav connected a computer to Shah’s phone, he found that the folder contained several child porn videos. Cybercrime police filed a complaint under IPC Section 292 for obscenity, along with charges under the Information Technology Act.
Section 292 of the Indian Penal Code deals with the publication, sale (including import and export) and exhibition of obscene materials. It provides for a jail term of up to two years and a fine of up to Rs 2,000 for the first conviction. On the second conviction, offenders can be imprisoned for up to five years and fined Rs 5,000.