QUETTA: The Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) Cybercrime Wing claimed to have arrested a suspect allegedly uploading child porn on the Internet.
The authority was moved into action after a video clip of a child had gone viral on social media.
The cyber-crime wing has sent the suspect’s mobile phone for forensic examination and booked him under the Prevention of Electronic Crime Act (Peca).
According to the FIA sources, the man was accused of uploading inappropriate videos of a child from rural Balochistan on the Internet.
FIA officials told the child’s father then filed a complaint with the Cybercrime Wing, following which the raid was conducted.
The FIA team raided the suspect’s place in the area after collecting his mobile phone location and static surveillance and arrested him.
The suspect was presented in the court subsequently and was handed over in the FIA custody on a seven-day remand. FIA started a further probe into the matter.
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