Law University question paper leak case: Three people, including vice principal, arrested
Bengaluru: Three individuals, including the vice-principal of a law college, have been arrested for allegedly leaking the State Law University’s main examination question paper on social media, Bengaluru City Police Commissioner B. Dayanand said.
The arrested individuals include Nagaraj, the vice-principal of Basava Sri Law College in Kolar district, along with students Jagadish and Varun Kumar, the commissioner confirmed.
The first-semester Contract Law Part-1 question paper, scheduled for January 23 by the State Law University, had gone viral on Telegram and WhatsApp groups. Following this, university officials and Vigilance Division-2 officer Vishwanath K.N. lodged a complaint with the Cyber Crime Police Station.
During the investigation, the Cyber Crime Police uncovered that the accused had used technology to collect information and leaked the question paper through Telegram groups. It was revealed that Jagadish, a student of the same college, had transferred the question paper from the mobile phone of Vice Principal Nagaraj to his own device. Further investigations showed that Jagadish was making money illegally by leaking the questions to examinees.
Another accused, Varun Kumar, a student of a law college in Bangarpet, Kolar district, had accessed the question papers that arrived at the college a day before the exam. Without anyone noticing, he copied the questions onto his mobile phone and leaked them online in exchange for money.
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Two arrested in K'taka for assaulting minors, uploading CSAM content
Bengaluru (PTI): Two men were arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting two minor girls, recording the acts on mobile phones and uploading the videos online as child sexual abuse material, police said on Thursday.
The accused have been identified as Kiran Kumar (29), hailing from Chitradurga district, and Aditya M K (20), hailing from Shivamogga district, they said.
A probe was initiated after information was received from the NCRP portal regarding a suspected instance of creation of Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) for online dissemination, police said.
Accordingly, a case was registered at Kaggalipura Police Station under relevant sections of the IT Act on May 10, they added.
Investigation revealed that two minor girl victims were exploited and videos were created and uploaded to the internet. The child victims have subsequently recorded their statements as per procedure and further necessary legal steps have been taken, Pronab Mohanty Director General of Police, Cyber Command, said in a statement.
Based on the statements of the victims, the accused persons, who allegedly assaulted the minors, recorded the acts on mobile phones and uploaded the videos online, were arrested, he said.
Following the probe, sections 65(2) (rape) and 70 (gangrape) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, along with relevant sections of the POCSO Act, have been added to the FIR, police said.
Officials collected relevant information and on May 12, arrested the accused persons and seized three mobile phones belonging to them, in which the videos had allegedly been recorded, he said.
The accused were later produced before the court and taken into police custody for further investigation, he added.
According to him, in CSAM cases, police usually apprehend offenders who have downloaded such content or have kept them in their possession after obtaining them from elsewhere, usually the internet.
"The present case is one of the very few instances where content creators and uploaders have been apprehended," Mohanty added.
