215 FIRs lodged, 105 held for uploading child porn since Dec 2019

Since December 2019, as part of ‘Operation Blackface’, the state cyber department in coordination with local police stations has registered 213 FIRs and arrested 105 people across Maharashtra for uploading child pornography and sexually explicit videos and photographs of minors on the Internet.

The FIRs are registered under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act or the Information Technology Act and the Indian Penal Code.

The initiative was undertaken after a US non-profit, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, informed the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) that child pornography was being uploaded from different parts of India.