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STF officials said the accused, identified as Ritik Raj, a resident of Muzaffarnagar, Bihar was arrested from Bhansali roadways bus stand under Sadar Bazar police station limits of Meerut and 179 preactivated Indian SIM cards were recovered from him. The officials said the accused had supplied over 4000 SIM cards to the racket operational from abroad, after activating them using forged identity cards .

A 47-year-old Navi Mumbai man was allegedly duped of Rs 46 lakh by fraudsters posing as officials from the Mumbai cyber police

On March 11, the top court had termed as “atrocious” the Madras High Court ruling which said that mere downloading and watching child pornography is not an offence under the POCSO Act and the Information Technology law.

The observations came from a bench of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice J B Pardiwala while reserving the verdict on an appeal filed by NGOs -- Just Rights for Children Alliance of Faridabad and New Delhi-based Bachpan Bachao Andolan -- challenging a Madras high court verdict.

The NGO – Just Rights for Children Alliance – challenged the High Court decision quashing the criminal case against accused Harish under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012 and the Information Technology Act, 2000.