Kanpur: Police on Saturday registered a Pocso case against a former employee of a rehabilitation centre in Kakadeo, Kanpur, for allegedly circulating a year-old obscene video involving a 17-year-old girl with mental illness and a boy of the same age.
They said their daughter attended the centre for studies but had not gone there for three to four months. He said that the accused was arrested and a case under the Pocso Act was registered against him. During questioning, she said the number belonged to her but she did not use WhatsApp .
CP Lal directed police to register and FIR and take action against the accused. Police traced the number used to send the video to a woman who operates another centre. He allegedly extracted the recording from CCTV footage and sent it to the girl and guardians of other children studying at the centre. Officers visited the Kakadeo centre late Friday and checked a year’s footage from all CCTV cameras, locating the recording that had been circulated. Police also questioned the management and employees individually.
The girl’s parents, on Friday approached Commissioner of Police (CP) Raghubir Lal on Friday after the video was sent to her father’s mobile phone.