It took three weeks for the cyber crime investigation cell (CCIC) of the crime branch to nail lieutenant colonel Jagmohan Balbir Singh, who was held for uploading child pornography material on websites on Thursday.
The CCIC sleuths moved into action after being informed that pornographic material involving children was being uploaded on and downloaded from a computer in Mumbai. They soon traced the Internet protocol address of the computer involved - it was provided by the German - and its location.
But the difficult part had just begun. Since the person involved was a senior army officer, the crime branch officer, the crime branch officials needed to be doubly sure of his direct was being misused by someone else. The sleuths had to work that problem out with caution.
"We had to be 100% sure before laying our hands on Singh. We had kept out surveillance high near his residence to ascertain how many people visited his house at Colaba," said a CCIC official. It was clear soon that nobody visited Singh's residence and the computer in question was used by his family members only.
"At around 3.30pm on Thursday, we went to Singh's house in his absence. We disclosed our identity to the family members and started looking for his computer, downloading of pornographic videos was on," said the officer.
Singh arrived within minutes and he was left speechless at the discovery of the downloading of pornographic material on his computer. " He admitted to committing the crime," the officer said.
Over 150 videos and clips were already downloaded. "he had also downloaded two computer software's on which such pornographic videos were freely available. The server of these software's was found to be in the United States," he said.
The police have also seized Singh's personal computer and two hard disks of 80 GB memory. Singh was produced before a local court and has been remanded to police custody till May 12.
Originally from Mohali in Punjab, Singh worked as a lieutenant colonel in the supply and transport department of the army before going on a study leave in 2009. Singh has completed 22 years in service and was posted in Mumbai for past 2.5 years. Singh stays with his wife and two children in Namdar Manzil building at Colaba.
Another case in Chennai
- William heum, 56, a Dutch national claiming to be a social worker, was arrested in Tamil Nadu last year on charges of uploading child pornographic videos on the internet. In February, he was released on bail by a local court in Chennai
- Heum was arrested by the cyber crime cell of the Chennai police after a tip-off from the Interpol that he was uploading child pornographic material on the internet. Heum was also arrested in 2002 on charges of sexually abusing children at an orphanage run by him in Mahabalipuram
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