Having Child Porn in your mobile ? Beware !

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Child porn in Mobile: Beware ?
As a part of the police crackdown against those who had viewed, downloaded, stored or shared child sexual abuse content (child pornography) online.

Sumit Kumar Kalra  a 49-year-old man was arrested at Chennai Airport on Saturday night for downloading child sexual abuse material and sharing .
Arrested accused is a computer science graduate and owns a shop that sells gym equipment on Montieth Road, Egmore. On Saturday night, as he landed in Chennai from Delhi, the police of the Crime against Women and Children wing nabbed him. The police had received information about the crime from the Us based National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children, which has the technology to monitor child pornography material shared online.
India reported a maximum number of online child sexual abuse cases, followed by Thailand, which shows the data by US-based National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC).  India accounts for 3.88 million such cases filed between 1998 and 2017. This is despite the fact that India is estimated to have 451 million internet users .
Sumit had allegedly downloaded child sexual abuse material from the dark web on April 29, 2019 and had shared it with a friend over Facebook Messenger. Police also matched Sumit’s phone number and the IP address used to share the content. Sumit had used different browsers to remain anonymous. Though the accused had initially denied his crime, when the police confronted him with evidence, he confessed to his involvement, claims the police.
He has been booked under the section 13,14 of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO) and section 67B of Information Technology Act,2000 and has been remanded to judicial custody.  
The Chennai police had, in December, announced that they had with them around 1500 IP addresses that had shared child sexual abuse content online and that they were monitoring at least three gangs that had created, stored and circulated child sexual abuse content. The Chennai police had also nominated Jayashree, the SP in-charge of Crime against Women and Children as the nodal officer for coordinating with the district police offices to act against child sexual abuse material. 
In December, the police arrested a 42-year-old man from Trichy for storing and sharing child sexual abuse material online. On January 4, a 23-year-old man from Assam was held in Pollachi for sharing child sexual abuse material on Facebook and a day later, the Coimbatore police also arrested a 25-year-old man, who worked as a bus driver in a private engineering college in the city, for viewing and sharing child sexual abuse videos online. 

Punishment for using a child for pornographic purposes

Offence
POCSO Act Punishment 

Use of a Child for Pornographic purposes
Minimum: 5 years

Use of a child for the pornographic purposes resulting in penetrative sexual assault
Minimum: 10 years
Maximum: life imprisonment


Use of a child for the pornographic purpose resulting in aggravated penetrative sexual assault
Minimum: 20 years
Maximum: Life imprisonment or death

Use of a child for the pornographic purposes resulting in sexual assault
Minimum: 3 years
Maximum: 5 years

Use of a child for the pornographic purposes resulting in aggravated sexual assault
Minimum: 5 years
Maximum: 7 years

I hereby caution and appeal WhatsApp group admin and members not to share or download any child abuse videos . One mistake can ruin your and your family’s life. Beware !
Adv (Dr.) Prashant Mali

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