<p>Ahmedabad: The Ahmedabad Cyber Crime Branch has arrested six persons over the past one week while investigating the viral CCTV footage of a woman patient being examined by a doctor at a private maternity hospital in Rajkot. </p><p>Investigation has revealed a "nationwide network" of hackers, sellers and users of voyeuristic contents hacked from CCTV footage of public and private places. At least, in one instance, the police have found the clip of the woman in Rajkot hospital having been sold to an Instagram user in Bangladesh. </p><p>Minister of state for home Harsh Sanghavi on Monday informed the state Assembly that the "suspects hacked more than 50,000 CCTVs in the last eight months from across the country. These were right from corporate offices, schools, colleges, movie theaters to personal home videos."</p>.Minor held for raping 9-year-old girl in Delhi.<p>The minister said that the suspects were using VPN (Virtual Private Network) of countries such as Atlanta, Romania, Georgia and Japan, among others, to hide their identities. They were allegedly running 22 different channels in the Telegram group and had "a menu card of obscene videos in the groups."</p><p>Since February 19, when the video of the woman patient in Rajkot went viral on social media, the cyber crime branch has arrested six accused. </p><p>Deputy Commissioner of Police, Cyber Crime Branch, Lavin Sinha told Deccan Herald that the three accused-Prajwal Ashok Teli, a resident of Latur, Praj Rajendra Patil, a resident of Sangli, in <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/india/maharashtra">Maharashtra</a> and Chandra Prakash from Prayagraj in <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/india/uttar-pradesh">Uttar Pradesh</a>- were into selling the footage on Telegram and other channels. </p><p>Police said that Teli, Patil and Prakash were running YouTube channels and Telegram groups where they were posting and selling the clips. The police arrested three more suspects including Vaibhav Mane from Sangli who allegedly aided Teli, the alleged mastermind, in setting up telegram channels, and collected money from the users. Police said that Teli allegedly earned about Rs8 lakh to Rs10 lakh in less than a year. </p>.<p>The investigation led to the arrest of another accused Ryan Pereira, a management student from Vasai, in Maharashtra and Parit Dhameliya in Surat. These two accused are alleged to be the hackers who had collected the footage from CCTV including from the maternity hospital in Rajkot. They sold the footage to another co-accused Rohit Sisodiya of Delhi, still at large, who sold them on Telegram channels. </p><p>Sanghavi said that the police have booked the accused under section 66F(2) of the IT Act, which includes provisions for cyber terrorism, punishable by up to life imprisonment. He claimed that Gujarat was the first state to have invoked this section.</p><p>Investigation has found that after acquiring the footage, the accused would make small clippings showing women undergoing medical checking, getting injected, taking bath like in ongoing Kumbh Mela and post them on social media channels including YouTube to get views. They later sold them to different users for anything ranging from Rs800 to Rs4,000 depending on their voyeuristic content.</p>
<p>Ahmedabad: The Ahmedabad Cyber Crime Branch has arrested six persons over the past one week while investigating the viral CCTV footage of a woman patient being examined by a doctor at a private maternity hospital in Rajkot. </p><p>Investigation has revealed a "nationwide network" of hackers, sellers and users of voyeuristic contents hacked from CCTV footage of public and private places. At least, in one instance, the police have found the clip of the woman in Rajkot hospital having been sold to an Instagram user in Bangladesh. </p><p>Minister of state for home Harsh Sanghavi on Monday informed the state Assembly that the "suspects hacked more than 50,000 CCTVs in the last eight months from across the country. These were right from corporate offices, schools, colleges, movie theaters to personal home videos."</p>.Minor held for raping 9-year-old girl in Delhi.<p>The minister said that the suspects were using VPN (Virtual Private Network) of countries such as Atlanta, Romania, Georgia and Japan, among others, to hide their identities. They were allegedly running 22 different channels in the Telegram group and had "a menu card of obscene videos in the groups."</p><p>Since February 19, when the video of the woman patient in Rajkot went viral on social media, the cyber crime branch has arrested six accused. </p><p>Deputy Commissioner of Police, Cyber Crime Branch, Lavin Sinha told Deccan Herald that the three accused-Prajwal Ashok Teli, a resident of Latur, Praj Rajendra Patil, a resident of Sangli, in <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/india/maharashtra">Maharashtra</a> and Chandra Prakash from Prayagraj in <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/india/uttar-pradesh">Uttar Pradesh</a>- were into selling the footage on Telegram and other channels. </p><p>Police said that Teli, Patil and Prakash were running YouTube channels and Telegram groups where they were posting and selling the clips. The police arrested three more suspects including Vaibhav Mane from Sangli who allegedly aided Teli, the alleged mastermind, in setting up telegram channels, and collected money from the users. Police said that Teli allegedly earned about Rs8 lakh to Rs10 lakh in less than a year. </p>.<p>The investigation led to the arrest of another accused Ryan Pereira, a management student from Vasai, in Maharashtra and Parit Dhameliya in Surat. These two accused are alleged to be the hackers who had collected the footage from CCTV including from the maternity hospital in Rajkot. They sold the footage to another co-accused Rohit Sisodiya of Delhi, still at large, who sold them on Telegram channels. </p><p>Sanghavi said that the police have booked the accused under section 66F(2) of the IT Act, which includes provisions for cyber terrorism, punishable by up to life imprisonment. He claimed that Gujarat was the first state to have invoked this section.</p><p>Investigation has found that after acquiring the footage, the accused would make small clippings showing women undergoing medical checking, getting injected, taking bath like in ongoing Kumbh Mela and post them on social media channels including YouTube to get views. They later sold them to different users for anything ranging from Rs800 to Rs4,000 depending on their voyeuristic content.</p>