Chennai techie couple arrested for running child pornography websites.

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A techie couple from Chennai were arrested for running a child pornagraphy website. The husband and wife were allegedly running the site from a rented house at Sholiganallur from three years.

The site operated on a membership basis and offered  child porn images and videos to clients. It reportedly earned the couple a net profit of 2.4 crore.

According to the police, the couple identified as Siddharth Velu and his wife Priscilla Margaret Dhanaraj initially started with a single porn site called cute candid.net and latter went on to open 4 other such sites. Initial interrogation revealed that  They confessed that they ran the sites to earn quick money.

A case has been registered against the couple under the IT act and charges of child pornography. They are currently being interrogated for information regarding the clients of their websites.

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