40-year-old arrested for sharing obscene content

NT Correspondent
Bengaluru

Police personnel from Cyber Economics and Narcotics, Bengaluru South-East, have arrested a 40-year-old person for allegedly sharing obscene pictures and videos over social media.
According to sources, the accused is said to be a food delivery executive and a resident of Madiwala in the city.

Police said the accused was allegedly involved in sharing obscene messages and contents to his contacts on social media. Later during the interrogation, he confessed to having sent friend requests to various malicious accounts in the process, police said.

The cyber police have seized his mobile phone and a case has been registered against him.
The Bengaluru Cyber Police have warned of stern action if they come across anyone indulge in circulating offensive, sexual or obscene contents on social media.

Illegal telephone 
exchange busted
The Central Crime Branch (CCB) Economic Offences Wing have arrested six men who ran an illegal telephone exchange that converted international calls to local calls, the police said.
According to the police, 16 SIM box devices, two SIP trunk call devices, nine primary rate interface (FRI) devices, five laptops, two desktops, nine mobile phones, six wifi routers, 205 BSNL SIM cards were seized from them.
The accused have been identified as Dubair, Mannu, Ismail Abdullah, Johar Shariff and Sahir. They  are said to be natives of Kerala while another accused identified as Ravichandran is a resident of Bengaluru, the police said.
According to police, the accused allegedly sought help from the local residents to obtain an accomodation to carry out their illegal activities.
“Their activities not only caused revenue loss to the government, but also posed a serious security threat to the nation,” a senior police officer said.

Two arrested for illegal transport of livestock
Bengaluru: Jalahalli police arrested two persons for allegedly transporting livestock illegally in a tempo in Bengaluru.

According to sources, six cows and two calves were rescued by the police.
The accused has been identified as Rangaswamy and Mannu, police said. The police were alerted about the livestock being illegally transported to the city from Gubbi. Police have seized the tempo from the accused.