A 25-year-old man has been booked by the Nainital district police for allegedly circulating child pornography on social media. The accused has been identified as Dilshad Ansari (25), a resident of Banbhulpura area of Haldwani district. This is the first incident of child pornography in Nainital district, a police official said.

Superintendent of police, Haldwani, Amit Srivastava said that a child pornography post was uploaded on Facebook on January 2, 2020, reports Hindustan Times. "Our surveillance team, who was monitoring the content on social media, came to know about it. When the surveillance team investigated the matter, the location of the post uploader turned out to be Banbhulpura in Haldwani," Srivastava said.