Keypoints:
- UP government employee arrested by the CBI on Tuesday for allegedly abusing around 50 children in a 10-year period has been suspended.
- Raids on the accused’s residence revealed eight mobile phones, Rs. 8 lakh in cash, sex toys, a laptop and other digital evidence, including a large volume of child sexual abuse material.
On Tuesday, a UP government employee has been arrested by the CBI for allegedly abusing around 50 children in a 10-year period has been suspended. The accused, who is the junior staffer in the irrigation department was suspended for “alleged involvement in immoral acts and misconduct”.
On Tuesday, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested Rambhawan, who was posted to Uttar Pradesh’s Karvi as a junior civil engineer in 2009, on the charges of child sexual abuse and sharing or selling photographs and videos of such material to pedophiles around the world via darknet.
Officials of the central investigative agency said that the abused children, who are between the age group of 5 to 16 years, came from three districts across the state – Banda, Chitrakoot and Hamirpur. The accused who has been arrested from Banda, is in one day judicial custody. An order on police custody is expected in Wednesday. Sources said the CBI had sought police custody as they believe he was not acting alone.
Raids on the accused’s residence revealed eight mobile phones, Rs. 8 lakh in cash, sex toys, a laptop and other digital evidence, including a large volume of child sexual abuse material (CSAM).
For the purpose of sharing CSAM, the scrutiny of emails found on the laptop indicated that he was in touch with several others (both foreign and Indian nationals).
During the interrogation, the accused told the investigators that he bribed the children with mobile phones and other electronic gadgets ensuring that they stayed silent about the activities.
The data released by National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) in the month of January, showed that over 100 children are sexually abused in India every single day, this is a 22 percent jump from the previous year, showed the NCRB data.
