India, Dec. 16 -- A Telegram channel named 'Lucifer', payments worth thousands, and a catalogue of obscene videos - this is what police of multiple states found when they unearthed an alleged online marketplace for child sexual abuse material.

A resident of Meerut's Bagpat Gate, identified as Amit Jain, is the man at the centre of the allegations and has been accused of operating a sophisticated digital storefront, Hindustan Times reported earlier.

According to police, the operations of the marketplace were done in a sophisticated manner, where buyers would go through the available content, followed by price negotiations. After this, the content would be auctioned and some videos were even sold for lakhs of rupees.

The operations of th...