Former UP engineer, wife charge sheeted for sexual abuse of minors

New Delhi, Feb 12 : The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed charge sheet against former Uttar Pradesh Irrigation Department junior engineer and his wife in connection with its probe into the sexual abuse case of clildren.
A CBI official here said that the agency filed a charge sheet against Rambhawan and his wife Durgawati, who were arrested last year in connection with the case, before a court in Uttar Pradesh’s Banda district.
Rambhawan was arrested on the charge of sexually exploiting around 50 minors in 10 years and selling video clips and photographs of his sexual acts on the dark net to paedophiles across the globe.
According to the CBI, the matter was brought to the notice of the agency sometime last year.
He was arrested from UP’s Banda district and the CBI team during searches had recovered eight mobile phones, around Rs 8 lakh in cash, sex toys, laptop, and other digital evidence carrying huge quantity of child sexual abuse material (CSAM).
A case was then registered against unidentified persons suspected of sexually abusing minors in Banda, Chitrakoot and Hamirpur districts.