The Commissioner's Task Force on Thursday arrested 13 people for uploading obscene videos in memory cards and selling pornographic material.
The Commissioner's Task Force on Thursday arrested 13 people for uploading obscene videos in memory cards and selling pornographic material and pirated DVDs/VCDs of the latest released movies at various place in the city in order to curtail pornography and piracy.
The Task Force teams have also seized a total 12 Computers, 85 DVDs/VCDs, 11 memory cards along with card readers, from the possession of the accused. The arrests were made by the Task Force teams after conducting raids at different internet cafes.
The Central Zone team arrested Medabala Ashok who was running Music Fans DVD Shop at Kavadiguda. He was allegedly selling porno DVDs and also newly released movie DVDs/VCDs like "Koo Antey Koti" and "Genius". The police seized a total 46 Porno DVDs, 16 Telugu movie pirated DVDs, 11 English movie pirated DVDs and 22 Hindi movie pirated DVDs from his possession.
Similarly, the East Zone team apprehended three persons - S Srikanth of Vijaya Mobile and Internet Shop at Amberpet, P Srikanth of Sri Laxmi Ganapathi Mobile Shop at Saidabad and E Vamshi Krishna of Apple Internet Center Shop. They were allegedly uploading pornography clippings in the memory cards of customers.
The North Zone team arrested two persons - C Srikanth of Punyapathi Mobiles at Begumpet and T Ashok of Sri Durga mobiles at Begumpet, while they were uploading obscene / pornographic clippings in the memory cards of customers. A total of two computers and two memory cards along with two card readers have been seized from their possession.
The West Zone team apprehended four persons while uploading obsence / pornographic clippings. The accused have been identified as R Anil Kumar of Sri Ganesh Web World at S R Nagar, Syed Mateen Hussain of S M Mobiles at Jubilee Hills, Sravan Kumar of Sri Ranga Communication at Jiyaguda and Rahul Singh of Sri Shiv Sai Ram at Puranapool. As many as four computers and four memory cards along with four card readers have been seized from their possession.
Likewise, the South Zone team arrested three persons - R Praveen Kumar of Global Communications at Uppuguda, K Amarnath of Crystal Computers at Chatrinaka and Mir Junaid Mohsin of My friends Internet shop at Shahgunj, while they were uploading obsence / pornographic clippings in the memory cards to needy customers, and seized three computers and three memory cards along with (02) card readers from their possession.
According to Additional Commissioner of Police P Rameshaiah, these raids were conducted in order to prevent illegal acts by internet centers, etc., in supplying pornographic material to the youth, which causes "sexual excitement" and "corrupts their minds", "thereby increasing the chances for youth to get involved in illegal activities". (INN)