Guwahati News Desk: The Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) K.N. Yashavantha Kumar, attached to the cybercrime cell of Criminal Investigation Department, was awarded with the prestigious ‘Cyber Cop of Year 2021’ award for a successful investigation against a man downloading and selling child pornography.
The DSP was presented with the award by Data Security Council of India in Delhi on Thursday.
According to the recent reports, Kumar bagged the honour for his impressive cyber skills during investigation and filing a chargesheet with scientific and circumstantial evidence.
Regarding the case of investigation, it was a case in 2020, wherein a 24-year-old student from Mangaluru was arrested by Kumar under the Section 67B of the Information Technology Act, 2000.
Officials said, “The ministry of home affairs had sent to the CID cyber cell details of a few suspects indulging in child pornography. This particular case was more serious in nature since the suspect was downloading stuff from different websites and selling it to persons outside the country. Being an IT student himself, the accused knew how to erase his trail. Kumar used digital forensic tools and techniques, carried out a flawless investigation and succeeded in arresting the accused in less than a month.”
In addition, Kumar was also responsible for recovering around 70 clips of child pornography from the accused, which were stored in laptop and mobile phones.
Moreover, further investigation revealed that the accused had sold more than 50 child pornography clips to 30 persons, all foreign nationals and that too in a span of six-eight months.
Furthermore, this is the second time CID Karnataka is bagging the award, as in 2015, MD Sharath, SP, cybercrime division, was honoured with India Cyber Cop of the Year award for solving an online job fraud case.
