Sex scandal: Boy who shot MMS clip held:
NEW DELHI, DECEMBER 20: The 17-year-old schoolboy, who allegedly filmed a sexual act with his classmate and then circulated it, was arrested on Sunday evening by Delhi Police.
The arrest comes after the two high-profile arrests of Baazee.com CEO, Avnish Bajaj, and IIT Kharagpur student, Raviraj, in this connection.
The teenager was arrested late on Sunday evening from the Capital, although officials were tightlipped on the place from where he was picked up.
Sources said the boy had gone to Nepal and returned after arrests warrants were issued against him. He will now be interrogated to put together the chain of events leading to the circulation of the controversial clip, which was then sold on Baazee.com by Raviraj and also found its way to the market in the form of CDs.
Police sources said the boy is likely to be charged under Sections 292 and 294 of the IPC and Section 67 of the IT Act.
According to Delhi Police, the boy is central to the entire episode. Officials said he would be interrogated to ascertain whether the act was filmed with the intention to circulate it among others or even sell it. Police also hope that the boy would name those to whom he had sent the clip and if any money had exchanged hands.
Officials said all legal formalities had been followed in the arrest of the juvenile, who will be produced in court on Monday. The girl and the boy involved in the incident, both students of Delhi Public School, RK Puram, were suspended and later left the school.
The boy was also a member of the Delhi Under-17 cricket team this season but didn’t play a match. He was part of the team from the second game against Himachal Pradesh at Una and also in the match against Haryana (at Gurgaon). He withdrew before the match against J&K (December 12-14) after the ‘video clip’ incident and opted out submitting a medical certificate citing ill-health.
Baazee CEO held, DPS boy next:
The investigations into the sale and transmission of the DPS MMS clip today led to the arrest of Baazee.com CEO Avnish Bajaj. He had been called in for questioning by the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Delhi Police and his arrest was announced at a hurriedly called Press conference in the evening.
The arrest of Bajaj, a former IITian, comes four days after a student of IIT Kharagpur, Ravi Raj, was arrested for putting on sale the DPS clip on Baazee.com. Bajaj had been served a notice at his office in Mumbai two days back to join investigations and he had reported at the EOW office yesterday.
And today, for the first time, the police said arrest of the DPS student who filmed the act and started the chain was imminent. The police have got his arrest warrants.
DCP, EOW, Prabhakar said the boy was central to the entire act. ‘‘The boy is a juvenile, and after following all legal formalities and procedure, he would be proceeded against,’’ he said. First the boy and, if needed, his parents would be questioned. The girl might be questioned too.
Baazee CEO Bajaj, an American citizen, was arrested for not showing ‘‘due diligence’’ when the clip was sold online. Though Baazee had deleted the clip after it was noticed, Prabhakar said they had ‘‘evidence that goes against them.’’ Bajaj has been charged under Section 67 of the IT Act which prohibits transmission and sale of obscene data electronically.
The clip was sold to eight persons on Baazee. Prabhakar, however, refused to give details of the evidence. He said they have written to the Controller of the certifying authority in the Ministry of Communications and IT to take appropriate action against the portal.
Bajaj, 34, is an MBA from Harvard Business School. He also has an MS in Computer Science from University of Wisconsin and BTech in Computer Science from IIT, Kanpur. He will be produced in court tomorrow.
Prabhakar warned that any person or entity that was involved in transmission of the objectionable clip would be liable for action, indicating that the investigations could last for days and more arrests could be made.
The police are also looking at the profit made by the website after the clip was sold online. Efforts are also being made to find out how the clip landed on the LAN of IIT Kharagpur.
The police said though chances were high that the boy had deleted the objectionable clip from his cell, which could mean destruction of evidence, a particular software could establish whether something had been deleted or not.
MMS sex clip scandal rocks Parliament :
New Delhi, December 16: The MMS sex clip scandal involving two Delhi school students had its echo in Lok Sabha on Thursday with a Shiv Sena member demanding that government ban mobile phones with camera facility in schools.
Raising the issue during Zero Hour, Subodh Mohite said the human resource development ministry should set up a committee to review the whole education system.
Mohite said the clippings had also found their way to Singapore and America.
The Shiv Sena member charged that the principal of the school was continuing for the last three years on "illegal extension" despite the policy of not giving extension after retirement.
DPS sex scandal: IIT student remanded to three day:
New Delhi, December 16: A Delhi court on Thursday remanded IIT student Ravi Raj, arrested for allegedly transmitting the infamous DPS R K Puram sex clip through Internet, to police custody for three days.
Metropolitan Magistrate DIG Vinay Singh remanded him after police claimed that they needed to interrogate him to ascertain where he had procured the media clip from and if anyone else was involved in its transmission.
Raj, a student of geophysics at IIT Kharagpur, had posted the sexually explicit two-minute clip involving two students of the Delhi public school for sale in the website of portal bazee.com, police claimed seeking his remand.
Some persons had even purchased the clip, police said adding financial transactions to the tune of Rs 17,800 were traced to Raj's account.
The transactions had to be analysed to ascertain whether they related to sale of the DPS clip, they added.
Police also claimed that besides this clip, the accused had been selling other pornographic literature also through the Internet.
Raj has been arrested under Section 67 of Information Technology act dealing with publication and transmission of obscene material through electronic means and under Sections 292 and 294 (dealing with sale of obscene books and obscene acts) of Indian Penal Code.
NEW DELHI, DECEMBER 20: The 17-year-old schoolboy, who allegedly filmed a sexual act with his classmate and then circulated it, was arrested on Sunday evening by Delhi Police.
The arrest comes after the two high-profile arrests of Baazee.com CEO, Avnish Bajaj, and IIT Kharagpur student, Raviraj, in this connection.
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| The chief of Bazee.com, Avnish Bajaj, being produced at Patiala House court in New Delhii |
The teenager was arrested late on Sunday evening from the Capital, although officials were tightlipped on the place from where he was picked up.
Sources said the boy had gone to Nepal and returned after arrests warrants were issued against him. He will now be interrogated to put together the chain of events leading to the circulation of the controversial clip, which was then sold on Baazee.com by Raviraj and also found its way to the market in the form of CDs.
Police sources said the boy is likely to be charged under Sections 292 and 294 of the IPC and Section 67 of the IT Act.
According to Delhi Police, the boy is central to the entire episode. Officials said he would be interrogated to ascertain whether the act was filmed with the intention to circulate it among others or even sell it. Police also hope that the boy would name those to whom he had sent the clip and if any money had exchanged hands.
Officials said all legal formalities had been followed in the arrest of the juvenile, who will be produced in court on Monday. The girl and the boy involved in the incident, both students of Delhi Public School, RK Puram, were suspended and later left the school.
The boy was also a member of the Delhi Under-17 cricket team this season but didn’t play a match. He was part of the team from the second game against Himachal Pradesh at Una and also in the match against Haryana (at Gurgaon). He withdrew before the match against J&K (December 12-14) after the ‘video clip’ incident and opted out submitting a medical certificate citing ill-health.
Baazee CEO held, DPS boy next:
The investigations into the sale and transmission of the DPS MMS clip today led to the arrest of Baazee.com CEO Avnish Bajaj. He had been called in for questioning by the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Delhi Police and his arrest was announced at a hurriedly called Press conference in the evening.
The arrest of Bajaj, a former IITian, comes four days after a student of IIT Kharagpur, Ravi Raj, was arrested for putting on sale the DPS clip on Baazee.com. Bajaj had been served a notice at his office in Mumbai two days back to join investigations and he had reported at the EOW office yesterday.
And today, for the first time, the police said arrest of the DPS student who filmed the act and started the chain was imminent. The police have got his arrest warrants.
DCP, EOW, Prabhakar said the boy was central to the entire act. ‘‘The boy is a juvenile, and after following all legal formalities and procedure, he would be proceeded against,’’ he said. First the boy and, if needed, his parents would be questioned. The girl might be questioned too.
Baazee CEO Bajaj, an American citizen, was arrested for not showing ‘‘due diligence’’ when the clip was sold online. Though Baazee had deleted the clip after it was noticed, Prabhakar said they had ‘‘evidence that goes against them.’’ Bajaj has been charged under Section 67 of the IT Act which prohibits transmission and sale of obscene data electronically.
The clip was sold to eight persons on Baazee. Prabhakar, however, refused to give details of the evidence. He said they have written to the Controller of the certifying authority in the Ministry of Communications and IT to take appropriate action against the portal.
Bajaj, 34, is an MBA from Harvard Business School. He also has an MS in Computer Science from University of Wisconsin and BTech in Computer Science from IIT, Kanpur. He will be produced in court tomorrow.
Prabhakar warned that any person or entity that was involved in transmission of the objectionable clip would be liable for action, indicating that the investigations could last for days and more arrests could be made.
The police are also looking at the profit made by the website after the clip was sold online. Efforts are also being made to find out how the clip landed on the LAN of IIT Kharagpur.
The police said though chances were high that the boy had deleted the objectionable clip from his cell, which could mean destruction of evidence, a particular software could establish whether something had been deleted or not.
MMS sex clip scandal rocks Parliament :
New Delhi, December 16: The MMS sex clip scandal involving two Delhi school students had its echo in Lok Sabha on Thursday with a Shiv Sena member demanding that government ban mobile phones with camera facility in schools.
Raising the issue during Zero Hour, Subodh Mohite said the human resource development ministry should set up a committee to review the whole education system.
Mohite said the clippings had also found their way to Singapore and America.
The Shiv Sena member charged that the principal of the school was continuing for the last three years on "illegal extension" despite the policy of not giving extension after retirement.
DPS sex scandal: IIT student remanded to three day:
New Delhi, December 16: A Delhi court on Thursday remanded IIT student Ravi Raj, arrested for allegedly transmitting the infamous DPS R K Puram sex clip through Internet, to police custody for three days.
Metropolitan Magistrate DIG Vinay Singh remanded him after police claimed that they needed to interrogate him to ascertain where he had procured the media clip from and if anyone else was involved in its transmission.
Raj, a student of geophysics at IIT Kharagpur, had posted the sexually explicit two-minute clip involving two students of the Delhi public school for sale in the website of portal bazee.com, police claimed seeking his remand.
Some persons had even purchased the clip, police said adding financial transactions to the tune of Rs 17,800 were traced to Raj's account.
The transactions had to be analysed to ascertain whether they related to sale of the DPS clip, they added.
Police also claimed that besides this clip, the accused had been selling other pornographic literature also through the Internet.
Raj has been arrested under Section 67 of Information Technology act dealing with publication and transmission of obscene material through electronic means and under Sections 292 and 294 (dealing with sale of obscene books and obscene acts) of Indian Penal Code.
