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Eleven people including two organisers of the 2014 ‘Kiss of Love’ protests, were arrested across Kerala, on Tuesday and Wednesday morning, in a police raid led by DIG S Sreejith with the help of cyber police, to tackle alleged online sex rackets.
Sources say that the Kerala police’s cyber wing stumbled upon the alleged sex racket while investigating a complaint on a Facebook paedophile page called ‘Kochu Sundarikal’.
Around five people have been arrested on the basis of the complaint, including the page admin, a man from Northern Kerala.
Some reports say model Resmi R Nair and her husband Rahul Pashupalan were amongst those taken into custody from Kochi while an infamous ‘goonda’ Akbar, a native of Kasargod was also detained on the allegations of being involved in the online sex trafficking of minor girls.
Four among the eleven taken into custody are women, there was one minor, a native of Bengaluru, involved as well. While the police were trying to take these people into custody, three people escaped in a car, including two women and a man.
Incidentally, the complaint on ‘Kochu Sundarikal’, which led to the two alleged rackets, was filed by another Facebook page called ‘Sexually Frustrated Mallu’, members of which were also part of Kiss of Love.
The complaint against the Facebook page with photographs of minors was given by a resident of Thiruvananthapuram, who was associated with KoL and SFM movements.
The police have also arrested others who had made vicious comments on pictures of minors.
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