New Delhi:The CBI has arrested a 35-year-old resident of Srinagar for allegedly running a racket that involved circulating child sexual abuse material (CSAM) on the internet after targeting USA-based minors with the help of his wife who is based there, officials said Tuesday.
The CBI has booked the accused under section 14 (use of child for pornographic purposes) of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and section 67-B (publishing or transmitting of material depicting children in sexually explicit act, etc. in electronic form) of the Information Technology Act, they said.
While the probe agency did not name the accused in its statement, he was identified by officials as Niyaz Ahmad Mir. He was produced before a Srinagar court on Tuesday.
An investigation by our reporters, including reported cases in the media between 2018 and 2020, show that those kidnapped were in Nigeria for business and diplomatic activities.
The cases exclude many abductions that have not been reported because families of the victims preferred to sort out their troubles without involving the state.
While some of the victims were carefully monitored by their abductors ahead of picking them up, others were seized by the kidnappers on highways.
Some of the kidnapped victims lost their lives while in custody or during rescue effort by security operatives.
Some Nigerian security personnel also lost their lives or sustained grievous injuries while struggling to rescue the victims of the abductions.
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