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  India national gets 35 years of jail in US for sexual exploitation of minors, child pornography

  World | April 03, 2025 8:53 IST

  The man identified as Sai Kumar Kurremula, living in Edmond, Oklahoma has been sentenced to serve 420 months in federal prison for the sexual exploitation of three children and transportation of child pornography.

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  Supreme Court rules watching, storing child pornography is offence under POCSO Act

  India | September 23, 2024 11:51 IST

  A bench of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra pronounced the verdict. The top court's bench was hearing a plea against a Madras High Court ruling that watching child porn is not a POCSO offence.

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  Karnataka High Court recalls order stating only viewing 'child pornography' is not an offence

  Karnataka | July 21, 2024 7:07 IST

  The petitioner’s counsel argued that Section 67B could not be applied in the case as his client had only viewed the website, and not circulated anything.

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  US soldier Travis King, who dashed to North Korea, facing charges of desertion and child pornography

  World | October 20, 2023 18:39 IST

  King illegally crossed over from South to North Korea in July and was said to have attempted to escape "inhumane treatment" in the US Army. He was released and returned to the United States in September after help from Sweden and surprisingly China.

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  Indore: Eight booked in connection with uploading child pornography content on social media

  Madhya Pradesh | July 19, 2023 18:19 IST

  Indore crime news: “We got to know that 8 persons in Indore district were uploading child pornography content on social media platforms. Following which the police have registered a case against eight persons under Indian Penal Code section 294 and 67 B of IT Act in the matter,” DCP Mishra said.

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  Telangana: Case booked against person for watching, circulating child porn in Hyderabad

  July 12, 2023 22:08 IST

  Hyderabad news: "The case was booked against a person for watching and circulating child porn content on a social media platform. Efforts are on to trace the accused," a senior police official said.

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  CBI conducts biggest crackdown on child porn, pan-India raids in massive 'Operation MeghChakra'

  Crime | September 24, 2022 14:00 IST

  As per the information, CBI has received inputs on the sales and distribution of such material on the internet from Interpol's Singapore-based Crime Against Child Unit.

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  DCW seeks answers from Twitter, Delhi cops over availability of child pornography videos on website

  India | September 20, 2022 16:46 IST

  DCW over porn videos: Protests rocked the campus of Chandigarh University in Punjab's Mohali on Saturday night over allegations that objectionable videos of several women students were recorded by a hosteller, following which Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann ordered a probe.

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  'Stand by zero-tolerance policy', says Twitter after NCW flags child pornographic content issue

  India | June 30, 2021 16:59 IST

  The Delhi Police has also sent a notice to micro-blogging site Twitter seeking details about steps taken by it against circulation of child pornographic content on its platform, officials said on Wednesday.

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  Delhi Police sends notice to Twitter over child pornography content on platform

  India | June 30, 2021 16:25 IST

  Delhi Police had registered an FIR against Twitter for allegedly allowing access to child pornography on its platform following a complaint by the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR)

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  CBI arrests two over alleged online sale, purchase of child sexual abuse material

  Crime | January 10, 2021 10:51 IST

  It was alleged that the said accused had purchased large volume of data from another accused and the data was stored over cloud-based websites containing objectionable material including child pornography material. 

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  UP engineer arrested for sexually abusing over 50 children in Chitrakoot, Banda, Hamirpur

  India | November 17, 2020 19:56 IST

  The CBI has arrested a junior engineer of Uttar Pradesh irrigation department for alleged sexual exploitation of children for last 10 years and selling videos and photographs of nefarious acts on dark net to other paedophiles across the globe.

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  Child pornographer released on bail in Pakistan

  World | May 15, 2020 17:30 IST

  A Pakistani court has set a child pornographer free on bail, two years after he was convicted of the heinous crime with seven years imprisonment in the country's first such case.

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  Delhi uploaded maximum child pornography material on internet in 5 months: NCMEC data

  India | January 28, 2020 10:56 IST

  A state-wise break up data of all states involved was not readily available, however, it was reported that the details of 1,700 cases were passed on to the cyber unit of the state by the NCRB.

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  377 child pornography websites taken down, 50 FIRs filed

  India | November 28, 2019 13:39 IST

  There are rising crimes against children due to easy access to pornography. Smriti Irani said she would have the administration act immediately if details of incidents are provided.

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  One of world's largest child pornography networks busted

  World | October 17, 2019 10:04 IST

  Officials said hundreds of suspects had been charged worldwide for their alleged involvement with the largest darknet child pornography website, funded by Bitcoin.

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  Kailash Satyarthi wants UNSC to act on child pornography

  India | October 12, 2019 10:34 IST

  Satyarthi, who has been running an NGO in India for the protection of child rights for about 40 years, said he is working to build pressure on this count by roping in more than two dozen other Nobel laureates.

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  US to help India check online child pornography

  World | May 29, 2019 18:19 IST

  The United States will help India check online child pornography and content related to child sexual exploitation following a pact signed between the two countries, officials said on Wednesday.

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  Air India pilot handcuffed, deported from US for downloading child pornography

  India | March 10, 2019 15:39 IST

  The incident took place at San Francisco on Monday and the pilot was deplaned by the authorities soon after his plane landed from New Delhi, they added.

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  Guidelines, SOPs soon to check child pornography, removal of images of rapes from websites

  India | December 13, 2018 22:31 IST

  The move came after the Supreme Court directed the central government to frame guidelines and SoPs in this regard.