Chennai: The Cyber Crime Cell of CBCID police arrested arrested a couple who ran a child pornography website and made Rs 2.4 crore in five years on Tuesday, 26 July. The couple Siddhattha Velu and Priscilla Margaret Dhanaraj had been operating the website from a rented house at Sholinganallur and collected huge amount for membership from viewers across globe. The Cyber Crime Cell of CBCID after receiving a tip off about child pornography content being hosted on the website traced and arrested the couple. The bank transaction details revealed that the couple had collected nearly Rs 2.4 crore through membership. Siddhattha Velu, a native of Trichy was married to Priscilla from Vellore for the past five. The couple shifted to Chennai and had rented a house in Sholinganallur, police sources say. Siddhatta, a school dropout, was well versed in networking and website hosting. He along with his wife were hosting two websites in which they posted obscene images of videos of children and adults that they had taken from other porn websites, investigation revealed. The couple displayed their email ids in the websites for viewers to contact them and to avail membership. Viewers and members were mainly from USA, UK and Canada. The source added, “They had opened a bank account in a private bank in the same locality through which the members would transfer the money in small amounts to avoid suspicion by the banker. The couple would not socialise much so the residents were not aware of their activities”. After a case was registered under the provisions of Information Technology Act, searches were conducted at the residence of the couple and it was found that the duo was posting the same images in three other child pornography websites. Police arrested Siddhatta Velu and Priscilla Margaret Dhanaraj and produced them before the competent court.]]>
