India, Feb. 19 -- The Ahmedabad Police's Cyber Crime Branch has arrested three persons from Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh for allegedly selling videos of female patients being treated in the check-up room of a private maternity hospital in Rajkot. They allegedly sold the footage to individuals with "perverted interests" through various YouTube channels and Telegram groups for Rs.2,000 per video via QR code payments, said officials.

"The accused were in touch with overseas hackers in Romania and Atlanta (in US). They had hacked the CCTV of a maternity hospital in Rajkot and uploaded videos using Telegram and YouTube channels. They took one-time payment using UPI for transactions," joint commissioner of police (JCP) Sharad Singhal told HT....