15 held throughout Telangana for circulating baby sexual abuse materials

A complete of 15 recurring offenders concerned in digital circulation of kid sexual abuse materials (CSEAM) have been arrested by the Telangana Cyber Safety Bureau (TGCSB).

The accused

The accused have been recognized as 24-year-old Mir Zakir Mohiuddin Ali Khan from Charminar; 30-year-old Prasad Kumar from Secunderabad; 23-year-old Syed Faheem Uddin, additionally from Charminar; 23-year-old Guramm Mahesh from Atmakur in Yadadri district; and 25-year-old Mohd Baseer Ahmed Quraishi from Mallepally. Others embody 29-year-old Shaik Ameer, 25-year-old Silmula Marteen and 31-year-old Palancha Sandeep, all from Nizamabad; 50-year-old Battula Anjaneyulu, 29-year-old A. Siba Dora, and 28-year-old Md Jalal Uddin, all from Karimnagar; 30-year-old Imran Mohammed, from Hanumakonda; 19-year-old Siddhartha, from Korutla, Jagtial; 20-year-old Errola Shiva, from Saroornagar and 19-year-old Abed Alam Khan from Qutbullapur.

The arrests have been made throughout a coordinated State-wide operation carried out on Wednesday (June 18, 2025) by the bureau’s specialised Baby Safety Unit (CPU), which has been monitoring recurring offenders engaged within the importing, storage and distribution of exploitative content material involving minors.

The arrested people have been picked up from a number of districts together with Hyderabad, Yadadri, Karimnagar, Warangal, Jagtial and Jagadgirigutta. All 15 have been discovered to be repeat offenders, linked to no less than 57 cyber tipline complaints.

The operation resulted in 34 First Data Studies being registered below the IT Act and the Safety of Youngsters from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, together with 17 circumstances taken up by TGCSB’s Cyber Crime Police Stations (CCPS).

The CSEAM content material recovered within the operation primarily concerned international victims, with kids aged between 6 and 14 years. Practically 90% of the content material pertained to ladies. A lot of the accused belong to working- and middle-class backgrounds, officers stated.

Social media patrolling and darkish net crawling

TGCSB Director Shikha Goel stated the bureau had additionally blocked almost 200 web sites linked to CSEAM materials as a part of the operation. She defined that a number of strategies are getting used to trace down such exercise. “One is the tipline evaluation. The bureau can be concerned in in-house social media patrolling and darkish net crawling to determine the accused concerned in sharing such content material,” Ms. Goel stated.

The investigation, she added, remains to be ongoing to determine the victims, hint the origin of the content material and decide whether or not the accused have been concerned in its creation. “We’re suspecting that the accused might have downloaded the content material from both open platforms or bought it on darkish net. Nevertheless, we’re additionally investigating to determine the supply of the content material to see in the event that they have been concerned in its creation,” she famous.

Motion in opposition to social media firms

The official additionally hinted that motion shall be taken in opposition to social media firms. “Social media platforms are anticipated to hold out due diligence and block the customers who’re sharing such content material. On this case, motion shall be taken in opposition to the social media platforms the place the content material was traced.” She additional careworn the necessity for stricter norms to be enforced by platform operators to make sure well timed motion in opposition to these circulating such materials.

The officer additionally warned that even looking such materials is a punishable offence and can appeal to motion by the police.