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The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed a chargesheet against an accused, resident of Thanjavur(Tamil Nadu) in the Competent Court(POCSO Cases), Thanjavur(Tamil Nadu) in an on-going investigation of a case related to online child sexual abuse & exploitation.
A case was registered against an accused & other unknown persons on the allegations of creating, collecting, seeking, browsing, downloading and exchanging/distributing material depicting children in sexually explicit act etc. in electronic form.
It was alleged that the accused has been sexually abusing a child for last 4 years. It was further alleged that the accused forced victims to perform penetrative sexual acts on them as well on other minor children, including a minor victim girl; clicked photographs & recorded video; forced them to watch sexual acts with other adult person; threatened them with publishing the pictures/video on social media and for bringing more minor girls. The accused aged about 35 years, a resident of District Thanjavur (Tamil Nadu), was pursuing Ph.D.(SUBHEAD)
CBI found Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) images & videos from the INTERPOL's Child Sexual Exploitation (ICSE) database. The analysis of the images using cyber forensic tools, location of incident was traced to Thanjavur District in Tamil Nadu. Analysis of videos revealed that a few victims were allegedly being sexually abused by male persons.
Searches were conducted at the premises of accused which led to recovery of incriminating electronic gadgets. The accused was arrested and is in judicial custody.
The investigation revealed that accused was sexually assaulting 08 victim children, both male & female between the age of 5-18 years for couple of years. It was further alleged that the accused forced victims to perform penetrative sexual acts on them as well on other minor children; recorded the sexual abuse of minor children; criminally intimidated the minor victims; forced & instigated minor victim(s) to perform sexual activities with other minor victims & also with him and used children for pornographc purpose, where most of the minor victims were still less than 12 years of age.
After investigation, a chargesheet was filed.