Chennai man held for selling porn videos of minor girls on Telegram
Arrested Prashanth for selling porn videos online.
CHENNAI: A 24-year-old man, a Diploma in
Mechanical Engineering
student, was arrested by the special police team for selling video clips of minor girls' porn for a price by the Avadi police. The arrested man was identified as R Prashanth, a resident of Chinna Sekkadu near Manali, who studied Diploma in Mechanical Engineering (DME).Police said the team busted the racket after the Telangana DGP, Dr Jitender, forwarded a message to the Tamil Nadu DGP, Shankar Jiwal, about the circulation of
porn videos
featuring minor girls.
Following this, the message was forwarded to the Avadi police, and the Additional Director-General of Police (ADGP), K Shankar, instructed the police team to track the suspect. The team apprehended Prashanth.Inquiries revealed that Prashanth opened a handle on Telegram as ‘Mr Invisible’ and offered porn videos of minor girls for Rs 100 and Rs 200. He was selling 99 video clips of minor girls' porn at the cost of Rs 100 and 1,000 videos for Rs 200. Police tracked him after he advertised it through an online platform.The Avadi cybercrime wing police arrested Prashanth, and he was remanded in
judicial custody
after being produced before a Magistrate Court in the city.
