Watch: CBI team attacked in Odisha during raid in child pornography case

A five-member CBI team was attacked and gheraoed by angry locals for over an hour when it raided a suspect's house in a child pornography case in Odisha's Dhenkanal on Tuesday, police said.

Some women and lathi-wielding youths also prevented a police team to rescue the CBI officials when the law enforcers arrived at the spot upon receiving information.

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The central probe agency team was led by CBI inspector, Delhi, Sandeep Kumar Tiwari, and comprised one officer from Kolkata and three others from Bhubaneswar.

The CBI officials reached a suspect's house in the Jadupati Vihar area under the Dhenkanal Town police station area and interrogated him for long hours, police said.

As the interrogation continued for over six hours, the local people gheraoed the CBI team members and attempted to rescue the man, police said.

After getting information, the Dhenkanal Town police station personnel reached the place and rescued the CBI team members after facing resistance from some women and young men.

“The CBI team had not given any prior information regarding the programme. However, we have rescued the five members. The suspect has been taken away by the investigating agency and he may be produced before the CBI court in Bhubaneswar on Wednesday,” Town Police Station inspector-in-charge Soubhagya Kumar Swain said.

A member of the CBI team said that the man was allegedly posting obscene pictures of children on pornographic sites.

The investigating agency has seized the man’s mobile phone and some other materials from his house.

The team member said that he is suspected to have been working as an agent for a pornographic website.