Over 100 viral videos, several minor girls: 19-year-old held in Maharashtra sexual abuse probe

By: Anil JadhavAMRAVATI/NAGPUR: A 19-year-old younker successful Amravati territory who reportedly filmed his intersexual maltreatment of insignificant girls and blackmailed them with menace of making videos viral, was arrested connected Tuesday and remanded successful constabulary custody till April 21.

The adjoining towns of Paratwada and Achalpur, 180km disconnected Nagpur, were rocked by the scandal, which saw astir 100 obscene videos spell viral successful which insignificant girls were reportedly seen nether duress.Accused Ayan Ahmed Tanveer Ahmed allegedly lured girls into relationships, past physically and sexually assaulted them portion signaling the enactment against their will. Police sources accidental the accused is disposable successful immoderate videos, and they fishy different accomplice mightiness person helped movie the intersexual exploitation.A tempest kicked disconnected connected Monday erstwhile Rajya Sabha MP Dr Anil Bonde and BJP authorities spokesperson Shivrai Kulkarni lodged a ailment with Amravati Rural SP Vishal Anand, alleging the accused lured respective girls done societal media and subjected them to intersexual assault. They warned of a beardown agitation if constabulary failed to act.With the accused successful constabulary custody, his telephone is being examined for much accusation portion the cyber compartment has begun the process of removing videos from societal media.

SP Anand said, "Police are monitoring posts of those who downloaded videos and are recirculating it."Cops added that nary unfortunate oregon household subordinate has filed a ceremonial ailment truthful far, fearing societal taboo. SP Anand appealed to victims' families to travel forward, assuring them of confidentiality, isolated from the authorities taking attraction of ineligible and counselling services.Amravati guardian curate Chandrashekhar Bawankule said adjacent CM Devendra Fadnavis has taken enactment of the case. "I person spoken with DGP, since this is simply a large issue. There are galore dimensions to this case, which cannot beryllium mentioned successful the media today. We volition analyse and instrumentality enactment against the accused," Bawankule said.