Delhi Police arrests man for circulating child pornographic content on Telegram
New Delhi (PTI): Delhi Police has arrested a 25-year-old man for allegedly possessing and circulating child sexual abuse material (CSAM) online through Telegram, an official said on Friday.
Salman, a resident of Bhalswa Dairy, was arrested on Wednesday after a report was received from the CyberTipline, a centralised system of the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), a non-profit organisation, for reporting online exploitation of children, a senior police officer said.
The report forwarded to the Bhalswa Dairy police station contained information about the manufacturing, possession, and distribution of child pornographic content by a Telegram user, the officer said.
Based on the inputs, a case under relevant sections of the Information Technology Act, 2000, was registered on October 1.
After a probe, police conducted a raid in the Bhalswa Dairy area, arrested Salman, and seized the mobile phone used in the commission of crime as evidence, the officer said.
"The accused was found possessing and sharing objectionable content involving minors on Telegram. His phone has been sent for forensic analysis to extract further evidence," a senior police officer said.
Further investigation is underway to identify other individuals linked to the offence, he added.
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3 officials of private banks arrested in Gujarat in Rs 2,500 crore cyber fraud; 20 held so far
Rajkot (PTI): Three officials of leading private banks were arrested for their alleged involvement in a Rs 2,500-crore cyber fraud racket in Gujarat's Rajkot district, bringing the number of those held so far in the case to 20, police said on Monday.
Those arrested were identified as Maulik Kamani, a personal manager at Yes Bank in Padadhari; Kalpesh Dangariya, a manager at Axis Bank in Jamnagar; and Anurag Baldha, a personal banker with HDFC Bank, Rajkot (Rural) Superintendent of Police Vijay Gurjar said.
Dangariya and Baldha were previously employed with Yes Bank, he added.
Kamani allegedly assisted the earlier arrested accused in opening and managing suspicious accounts. He also helped bypass banking alerts triggered by high-value transactions by submitting additional documentation to keep accounts active, the SP said.
Kamani was allegedly involved in cash withdrawals that were later routed through hawala channels (illegal money transfer system), supported by digital evidence recovered from his mobile device, he added.
Dangariya is accused of facilitating the opening of fraudulent accounts using fake or misrepresented identities, police said.
He also assisted in structuring documentation, including Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC)-related papers, to prevent transactions from being flagged as suspicious, they said.
On the other hand, Baldha opened new accounts after verification and certification processes as part of the racket, Gurjar informed.
All the three accused are in police custody, while others are in jail under judicial remand, SP said.
So far, police have identified 85 bank accounts linked to the racket with 535 complaints filed on the cyber crime portal.
The total transaction linked to the cyber fraud exceeds Rs 2,500 crore, police said.
The earlier fraud amount was pegged by police at Rs 1,500 crore.
