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Child pornography: US national arrested in Hyderabad

by India Blooms News Service 17 Jan 2017, 07:19 pm

Hyderabad, Jan 18 (IBNS): A US citizen has been arrested from Hyderabad for allegedly circulating child pornography on the internet, media reports said on Wednesday.

The US national has been identified as James Kirk Jones.

He was reportedly working here at a law firm since 2012.

"The cybercrime wing of the Telangana Crime Investigation Department (CID) said 42-year-old James Kirk Jones, a resident of Madhapur, was apprehended on the basis of an Interpol alert that the pornographic material was being circulated through a certain IP address located in the city," Hindustan Times reported.

According to reports, a case has been filed in the matter under Information Technology Act, 2000.