Maharashtra police lodges FIR against Youtube Channel for showing child sexual abuse

News Summary: 

• Maharashtra Cyber cell files FIR against YouTube channel for displaying "Child Sexual Abuse Material" (CSAM).
• NCPCR alerted Cyber Police about child pornography content on the channel, prompting an investigation.
• Video featuring a four-year-old girl deemed obscene leads to the registration of a case under IPC section 509, IT Act, and POCSO.
• Cyber Police traces the YouTube channel's operator to Palghar district, Maharashtra.

Mumbai (Maharashtra): The Maharashtra Cyber cell on Thursday lodged an FIR against a YouTube channel and others for showing "Child sexual abuse material" (CSAM).

National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) had informed Maharashtra Cyber that content like child pornography had been uploaded on a YouTube channel, after which Cyber Police started its investigation on the matter.

Maharashtra Cyber Cell said that a video with a four-year-old girl was uploaded on a YouTube channel which was obscene, after which the Maharashtra Cyber Police registered a case against the channel and others involved in the video, under section 509 of the IPC, IT Act (sexual harassment by electronic mode) and POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences).

Maharashtra Cyber Police officials investigated and found that a resident of the Palghar district of Maharashtra was operating the YouTube channel.

So far, no arrest has been made in the case, an official of the Maharashtra cyber cell informed.

(With ANI inputs)