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LUCKNOW: A techie who lost his job during the pandemic-induced lockdown teamed up with his Delhi-based friend to make a fast buck by peddling child pornography on Instagram before CBI caught them in the act and formally arrested the duo on Sunday. The accused, Neeraj Yadav, native of Sonbhadra district, and his Delhi friend Kuljeet Singh Makan, were remanded in judicial custody till January 22.
This is the second big child porn racket bust in the state in a span of few months after a junior engineer in Banda was nabbed in November last year for sexually exploiting children and selling videos and photographs on the Dark Web for nearly a decade. A special unit of CBI — Online Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation Prevention and Investigation (OCSAE) — tasked to track online child sexual abuse had booked the duo under POCSO and IT Act in September last year.