The CBI on Friday filed a chargesheet against an accused Rambhawan, resident of Chitrakoot district (Uttar Pradesh) and his wife Durgawati before a court at Banda (UP) in the case related to sexual abuse of children.
A case was registered against the accused person and other unknown persons on October 31 last year. It was alleged that the accused persons were involved in sexual abuse of children in the districts of Banda, Chitrakoot and the surrounding areas in Uttar Pradesh.
Apart from the physical abuse of these children, the accused also allegedly recorded their acts using their mobile phones, laptops and other electronic devices.
It was further alleged that these photographs and video films containing child sexual abuse material were published/transmitted by the accused using the facility of Internet. It was also alleged that the accused used Darkweb for sale, transmission and sharing of such child sexual abuse material (CSAM) content with other individuals.
Searches were earlier conducted at the residence of accused which led to the recovery of cash of Rs 8 lakh, mobile phones, laptops, web-camera and other electronic storage devices including Pen Drives / Memory Cards and several sex toys.
“The accused allegedly used these electronic items and gadgets to lure children falling in the age group of 5-16 years.
The scrutiny of the emails of the accused had revealed that he was allegedly in constant touch with several individuals (both Indian and foreign nationals) for the purpose of sharing child sexual abuse material. The accused had allegedly created and shared huge quantity of child sexual abusive material, over the years, through the Internet using various social media platforms and websites over Darknet,” the CBI said in a statement.
During investigation, both the accused were arrested and are presently undergoing judicial custody.
After investigation that included collection of statements of male victims aged between 4 to 22 years and medical/forensic examination of victims and accused and other digital evidence, a chargesheet has been filed against the accused, it said.
Meanwhile, the agency has arrested two officials of FCI, Hisar (Haryana) in an alleged bribery case of Rs.7000 in which bribe was sought against release of remaining arrears from an employee who had taken VRS.