In a major crackdown on online child sexual predators, the Telangana Cyber Security Bureau has arrested 15 people, mostly educated men in their 20s.
Telangana State Cyber Security Bureau director Shikha Goel told NDTV that in the last four months of the formation of the Child Protection Unit, 294 First Information Reports (FIR) were filed and 110 people were arrested. Whereas in the two years preceding that, only 37 FIRs and 34 arrests were made against those who committed offences of uploading, browsing, sharing child sexual exploitation and abuse material.