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.
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