Facebook pages that were reported and shut down for allegedly promoting paedophilia have mushroomed all over again. What is even more shocking is that they are up with the same name, as if cocking a snook at the law machinery which had got them removed.

The page "Kochu Sundarikal" (translates to young girls in Malayalam) was shut down in April this year after the page was reported for putting up photos of children with obscene comments. Although a case was filed with the IT cell in Thiruvananthapuram city by the group, Sexually Frustrated Mallus (SFM), the culprits were not caught. And now the page is active again with over 4273 likes.

The pictures seem to have been taken out of random profiles and websites and the posts by the admin encourages members to come up with lewd comments for the pictures. There are also group photos where the admin asks the members to choose one of the girls in the group.

Last month, after the Centre revoked a blanket ban on pornography reserving the strictures for child porn sites, a 19-year-old diploma holder from Pollachi in Tamil Nadu's Coimbatore district was arrested by the state's Criminal Investigation Department. The accused, Manikanda Prabhu, had created a page on Facebook with pictures of young girls accompanied by sexually-explicit comments.