KOCHI: ' Kiss of Love ' core organisers Rahul Pashupalan and his model wife Resmi R Nair along with 14 others were held for allegedly helping a paedophile group.

In a raid conducted by police on Tuesday night, an infamous gangster Akbar, a Kasargod native, was also arrested. The Rahul and Resmi were held from Nedumbassery near Cochin airport. The crackdown on online fresh trade was done under the code name 'Operation Big Daddy'.

While taking Resmi -- a Playboy model -- into custody, there was an attack against the police personnel. The attackers also tried to ram a vehicle into the police team responsible for the raids.

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"Rahul and Resmi have been helping the group which was into supplying children for paedophiliacs", said DIG S Sreejith who led the raids.

The cyber police initiated the raid based on an information that an online sex racket was functioning through various websites and social media platforms like Facebook.

Three among the 16 arrested are said to be from other states. Some of the arrested had uploaded pictures of school and college going girls on a Facebook page named 'Kochu Sundarikal' and posted derogatory comments. The arrested were shifted to Thiruvananthapuram on Wednesday morning.

The "Kiss of Love" campaign had raised a strong voice against the agents of moral policing.

The movement was started after a mob of attackers demolished a coffee shop in North Kerala's Kozhikode city on the ground of condemning "alleged immoral activity" of public display of affection by few couples.

