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WhatsApp rape videos accused sent to 7 days' police custody
New Delhi, March 26
A court here on Thursday
sent a man arrested in connection with rape videos that were posted on
phone messaging service WhatsApp to seven days' police custody.
Chief
Metropolitan Magistrate Sanjay Khanagwal allowed the Central Bureau of
Investigation (CBI) to quiz accused Kalia Sahoo alias Subrat Sahoo till
April 2.
He was presented before a court here at the end of his one-day police custody.
Sahoo was arrested from Bhubaneswar on March 23.
The
court allowed the CBI plea that Sahoo was required for interrogation
and he will be taken to Bhubaneswar and other locations.
Quizzing him will also help in acquiring sources through which the video was uploaded on internet, the agency submitted.
The
probe agency told the court that Sahoo's custody was required to learn
about the place of occurrence, modus operandi, recovery of various
articles and to apprehend his associates.
Sahoo has been booked
under various sections of the Indian Penal Code and Information
Technology Act for violation of privacy and publishing obscene material
in electronic form.
The CBI said the video clips of rape have been examined. There were nine different clips, it said.
The CBI told the court that it has registered eight first information reports (FIRs) and one preliminary enquiry (PE).
The
FIRs were registered on the order of the Supreme Court on February 27
directing the CBI to undertake an investigation into the videos posted
on the popular app.
The apex court order came after the videos
were sent to Chief Justice H.L. Dattu by Hyderabad-based NGO Prajwala in
a pen drive along with a letter.
The letter did not give any details of when or where these rapes took place, or who the offenders were.