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The Telangana Cyber Security Bureau (TGCSB) connected Thursday (January 8) carried retired a one-day intra-State peculiar cognition crossed Telangana, arresting 34 cyber crooks, including 24 repetition offenders, progressive successful kid intersexual exploitative and abusive worldly (CSEAM) cases and 10 mule slope relationship holders linked to cyber frauds.
The cognition was conducted by 18 teams crossed Hyderabad and different districts. Officials said the CSEAM offenders were progressive successful uploading, storing and circulating sexually explicit contented of minors and were linked to 91 cyber tipline complaints. As portion of the crackdown, 24 FIRs were registered nether the Information Technology Act and provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act astatine cyber transgression constabulary stations crossed the State.
The accused, aged betwixt 18 and 48 years, mostly belonged to moving and middle-class backgrounds and included a State authorities employee. Police said a bulk of the worldly progressive miss children, galore of them overseas victims, aged betwixt 4 and 14 years.
In 1 case, the TGCSB’s Child Protection Unit identified contented suspected to person been locally produced and rescued a four-year-old miss aft arresting the accused. Police said the child’s parents were unaware of the maltreatment until the probe led to the offender, identified arsenic 24-year-old Kandhada Srikanth, a nonmigratory of Rajendranagar and moving arsenic a information guard, who has been remanded to judicial custody.
In different instance, a inferior adjunct moving successful the Irrigation section was arrested successful Nizamabad for repeated engagement successful 3 online CSEAM offences.
As portion of the aforesaid operation, 10 mule slope relationship holders were arrested for facilitating cyber frauds. Investigations person revealed links to 37 cases crossed the country, including 14 successful Telangana, involving transactions worthy astir ₹26 crore.
According to TGCSB, aft the constitution of the CPU successful February 2025, the processing of online CSEAM complaints has seen a crisp increase. The fig of cyber tipline reports processed roseate from 21,817 successful 2023 and 28,583 successful 2024 to implicit 1.20 lakh successful 2025, starring to a important leap successful enforcement. FIRs registered accrued from 11 successful 2023 and 26 successful 2024 to 866 successful 2025, portion arrests roseate from 5 and 31 successful the erstwhile 2 years to 421 successful 2025. The portion has besides substantially stepped up coordination with different States, forwarding much than 6,000 tipline reports successful 2025.
Officials said the intensified enactment forms portion of a broader enforcement propulsion by the TGCSB. Since September 2024, the bureau has conducted 3 inter-State and 4 intra-State peculiar operations, including 4 large drives successful 2025 alone. During 2025, astir 1,689 cybercrime accused were arrested crossed Telangana, of whom astir 277 were apprehended by the TGCSB done its 7 cyber transgression constabulary stations, with 167 arrests made during peculiar operations and the remainder during regular enforcement.
The bureau has urged citizens to study suspicious online enactment involving minors done the cybercrime portal oregon by dialling the nationalist helpline 1930, and warned against circulating delicate content, adjacent unintentionally.
