CBI sleuths on Thursday arrested a man from Odisha in Bengaluru for allegedly uploading sex videos of a woman being gangraped that went viral on the internet.
The accused, identified as Kaushik Kuanar, was produced before a special CBI court on Friday and taken on a four-day transit remand. The CBI would take the man to Delhi and then to Sitapur, sources said.
CBI sources said the accused was staying in Bengaluru with his cousins for the past two years and was working as a driver.
On Thursday evening, the CBI team raided Kuanar’s rented house in Bengaluru and seized over 500 porn clips, hidden cameras, high-end editing software and other equipment.
The CBI used sophisticated forensic software to track the origins of these video messages which went viral on social messaging platforms, including WhatsApp.
Notably, the CBI has launched a probe after the Supreme Court ordered it to nab the culprits on the complaint of a Hyderabad-based NGO Prajwala on the posting of two rape videos on WhatsApp.
Three of the nine clips given to the agency by the Supreme Court for investigation were traced to Kuanar. In connection with one clip, the agency has already arrested two persons from Odisha, Kalia Sahu and Debashis Dev.