CBI arrests Orissa man for posting rape video online

The CBI arrested a Bhubaneswar-based builder late on Monday night on charges of raping a woman and filming the act. The arrest took place after the Supreme Court ordered the apex investigative agency to probe into the videos of rapes or gangrapes of unidentified victims uploaded on social networking sites and MMS by unknown people.

According to CBI sources, Subrat Sahu alias Kalia, who is in his 40s, was arrested from Phulanakhara area of Bhubaneswar. The sources added that Sahu had raped the victim, while his accomplice recorded it without the victim’s consent.

Last week the Supreme Court had taken suo-motu cognisance of a letter written by Hyderabad-based NGO to Chief Justice of India H L Dattu. The NGO had given nine videos of separate sexual offences being circulated on social media following which the apex court had ordered CBI to start probe into the cases. Sahu has reportedly figured in one of the nine video clips.

CBI officials from Delhi produced Sahu on Tuesday before a court in Bhubaneswar and took him on three-day transit remand.

CBI sleuths also conducted raids at Sahu and his relatives’ houses in the city and seized pendrives, CDs and other incriminating materials.

Among the nine videos, the CBI is probing eight of them under Regular Cases (RCs) and one under Preliminary Enquiry (PE). Six FIRs relate to gangrape, abduction or kidnapping, and dissemination of sexual violence against women; the seventh pertains to rape, abduction or kidnapping and dissemination of sexual violence against women; and the eighth FIR pertains to making sexual act, capturing images without consent and dissemination of sexual violence against women.

The CBI’s PE relates to beating of unidentified small children by an unidentified man.

The CBI has announced a reward of Rs 1 lakh in each case for information on the unidentified accused. Photos of the unidentified accused have also been sent to DGPs of different states in a bid to arrest them.

Source:: Indian Express