Dikhyaa Mohanty 
A five-member Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) team was gheraoed by angry locals for an hour when it raided the house of a suspect in a child pornography case in Dhenkanal district on 16 November.
According to the reports, some women and people with batons also prevented a police team from rescuing the CBI officials when the law enforcers arrived at the spot upon receiving information. The central probe agency team was led by CBI inspector, Delhi, Sandeep Kumar Tiwari, and comprised one officer from Kolkata and three others from Bhubaneswar.
The police informed that the CBI officials reached the house of a suspect and interrogated him for long hours. As the interrogation continued for over six hours, the local people confronted the CBI team members and attempted to rescue the man. The man was allegedly posting obscene pictures of children on pornographic sites and have been working as an agent for a pornographic website. The investigating agency has seized the man’s mobile phone and some other materials from his house. The accused informed that he had joined a WhatsApp group only two months back after coming across a link on the internet.
The CBI on 16 November started a coordinated search operation at 76 locations in 14 states against 83 people allegedly involved in sexual abuse of children and posting and circulating abuse material on the webspace, officials said. The central agency has registered 23 separate cases on November 14 against 83 people allegedly involved in online child sexual abuse and exploitation. Apart from Odisha, searches are being conducted in Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Bihar, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Haryana, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, and Himachal Pradesh.
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