Get all your news in one place.
100's of premium titles.
One app.
Start reading
The Hindu
The Hindu
National
The Hindu Bureau

Surveillance by Cyberdome tracks down disseminators of child sexual abuse material

A month-long secret cyber-surveillance operation by the Kerala Police’s countering child sexual exploitation team resulted in scores of persons, including migrant workers and white-collar professionals, getting booked for allegedly trading, peddling, storing and distributing child sexual abuse material.

Officials said suspects rarely stored the images and videos and deleted them immediately after viewing the content. Some regularly formatted their phones to scrub off incriminating evidence.

The operation code-named P-Hunt_23.2 focussed on those who obsessively downloaded, viewed and traded child sex abuse material (CSAM) on closed online messaging groups.

Sign up to read this article
Read news from 100's of titles, curated specifically for you.
Already a member? Sign in here
Related Stories
Top stories on inkl right now
One subscription that gives you access to news from hundreds of sites
Already a member? Sign in here
Our Picks
Fourteen days free
Download the app
One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.