Youth arrested in Tirupati for creating facebook page for paedophiles
The cyber cell of Tamil Nadu police's crime brunch tracked down Yadava Manikanta's IP address and arrested him from his house.
The accused had allegedly created at least four communities for paedophiles on the social networking site which contained photos of minor girls were posted with sexually explicit comments, reports said.
One of these communities had around 3,000 followers. However, it has been removed by Facebook following numerous complaints by residents in Chennai.
Police have registered a case under the Information Technology Act and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act.
Efforts are also on to identify those who posted likes and comments.
Support Our Journalism
We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism
IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.
