The CBI on Tuesday arrested a junior engineer working with Uttar Pradesh's Irrigation Department for allegedly sexually abusing around 50 children, aged between five and 16 years of age, over a period of 10 years. The accused government official was also reportedly selling videos and photographs of the heinous acts online.
He was arrested from Banda and is likely to be produced before the competent court soon. During searches, the CBI has recovered eight mobile phones, cash around eight lakh, sex toys, laptop, and other digital evidence carrying a huge amount of child sexual abuse material, they said.
It is alleged that the junior engineer was operational for the last ten years, mainly contacting and sharing child sexual abuse material with other pedophiles globally using darknet and cloud services abroad. He is known to have told the investigators that he used to bribe the children with mobile phones and other electronic gadgets to keep their mouth shut about his activities, they said.
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