Mumbai: The East region cyber police station on July 23 registered a case against unknown mobile users for publishing and transmitting material depicting children in sexually explicit acts on social media.The case was registered after the cyber police received a complaint from the state govt, alerting it through a “tip line” about videos and photos related to child sexual abuse being uploaded on social media, and the information also contained mobile numbers.A cyber police officer said information about various social media users exchanging child sexual abuse material on social media platforms was received from the Cybercrime Coordination Center I4C, which coordinates with investigating agencies in the country, and that this information was called a tip line.
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“This report contains information such as the user’s name, email ID, IP address, mobile number, etc, as well as videos or photographs uploaded by the user related to child sexual abuse. The received information is analysed, and appropriate action is taken by sending the information to the concerned police station,” said the officer.On July 17, the East cyber police station received information via email through the anonymous operational system under two tip lines. “Upon analysing the information from tip lines, it was observed that tip line, which uploaded videos and photos related to child sexual abuse, contained mobile numbers. In connection with the inquiry into the said tip lines, information and videos were downloaded from the relevant NCCRP portal,” said the cyber police.On July 18, a detailed panchnama (witness report) was conducted in the presence of two witnesses. In the complaint, assistant inspector SS Gaikwad said: “All the said PDF files and MP4 files have been securely stored. However, it has come to light that the mobile numbers mentioned in tip line were used to disseminate objectionable child sexual abuse material through internet on social media platforms, and were being misused. Therefore, a complaint has been filed by the govt against the person who committed the crime using the aforementioned mobile number,” said the officer.The cyber forensic teams are working on gathering details of the internet protocol (IP) address used to upload the objectionable videos and photos, and details have also been sought about the mobile numbers used in the offence.
