The Navi Mumbai police recently booked a Belapur resident for allegedly circulating child pornography on social media. The absconding accused has been identified as Tarik Anwar. The police acted on a tip off by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), a Mumbai Mirror report read.

This is the second incident where the police were informed by the home ministry, after the ministry received information by the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), a US-based NGO.