Army officer arrested for child pornography

Mumbai, May 7 (ANI): Lieutenant Colonel Jagmohan Balbir Singh has been arrested in Mumbai for circulating child pornography over the Internet.

Forty two-year-old Singh was arrested by the Cyber Cell of the Mumbai police late on Thursday night and will be under police custody till May 12.

Singh allegedly posted and downloaded pornographic photos of foreign children between the ages of 3 and 10 on the Internet.

The German Federal Bureau spotted the photos on a child pornography site and traced the pictures to India.

Interpol was alerted which then passed on the information to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), who passed it onto the Mumbai Crime Branch.

The Mumbai police recovered two hard drives from Singh's house, which would act as evidence against him. (ANI)