A clandestine cyber-surveillance operation by the Kerala Police (Countering Child Sexual Exploitation) team resulted in at least 10 persons getting arrested on the charge of trading, peddling, storing and distributing child sexual abuse material.
The team, led by Additional Director General of Police Manoj Abraham, has busted several peer-to-peer child pornography-sharing groups. Investigators used deception, fake personas and social engineering techniques to infiltrate the highly secretive cliques.
Kerala Police Cyberdome aided the operation, code-named P-Hunt. It reportedly used state-of-the-art cyber-surveillance software sourced from Interpol to track the online trafficking of child pornography.
