Palghar: Dubai-based company cheated, duo booked

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A Dubai-based company was cheated of about Rs 1. 7 crore by a duo and police has registered a case against a duo, an official of Palghar police said on Thursday.

The case was registered by the Tulinj police on a complaint by the Dubai-based company's representative, who is based in Maharashra's Palghar district, he said.

The complainant's company had in January 2022 placed an order with a firm from Delhi to buy electrical fittings worth about Rs 5 crore. It also made an initial payment of nearly Rs 1.96 crore, the complainant said.

While the Delhi-based company dispatched goods worth Rs 26.5 lakh to the Dubai-based company, the buyer claimed that they did not meet the specified standards.

Subsequently, the seller did not deliver the remaining materials worth nearly Rs 1.7 crore despite having received the payment, prompting the buyer to lodge a complaint.

Police in Palghar's Tulinj on Tuesday booked Vikas Tanwar and Pushpa Tanwar, owners of the Delhi firm, for cheating the buyer of nearly Rs 1.7 crore, the official said.

Meanwhile, the cyber cell of Maharashtra Police on Thursday registered a case against the operator of a YouTube channel and others for allegedly displaying "Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM)" involving mothers and their minor children.

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The First Information Report also named the India representative of the "YouTube social media platform".

The National Commission For Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) had issued a notice on January 8 to the superintendent of police, cyber cell, asking for investigation, said an official.

The commission informed that a disturbing trend had emerged on YouTube where participants in a "challenge" were filming and uploading videos of acts potentially in the nature of sexual abuse and involving mothers and minor children.

The NCPCR had come across one such channel named 'XXXX Vlogs' which aired a disturbing video, the official said.

Cyber cell officials started probe and found that the channel was being operated by a resident of Palghar district of Maharashtra, he said.

A case was registered under section 15 (storage of pornographic material involving child) of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 67B (publishing or transmitting of material depicting children in sexually explicit act) of the Information Technology Act, and 509 (sexual harassment by electronic mode) of the Indian Penal Code against the channel, its operator, the woman appearing in the video and India representative of the "YouTube social media platform". No arrest has been made in the case, the official said. (With inputs from PTI)