The police on Wednesday arrested J Niyaz Ali, a 23-year-old man hailing from Bilaspur in Uttar Pradesh, on charges of possessing child sexual abuse videos on his mobile phone “for spread (sic) through online apps”.
Police said Ali had been working in a in a hair-dressing saloon in Karur for the past six months.
Acting on a complaint lodged by the local unit of the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children, the Karur police arrested Ali and produced him before a magistrate, who remanded him to judicial custody.
