In yet another horrific case of child pornography, a Chennai couple has been arrested for operating a child porn website and also trying to sell videos and porn images to clients who registered with them.

Based on a tip-off, the Tamil Nadu cyber crime wing of the CB-CID arrested accused Siddharth Velu and his wife Priscilla, who ran their business from Sholinganallur in Chennai.

The techie couple had a Bengaluru-based bank account through which they received payments. The two have been operating the websites for a couple of years and had received payments for membership which was close to Rs 2.4 crore.

According to the police, the website was managed by Velu who initially started with the porn site called cute candid.net. Later, the couple began a few more websites which was hosted by the names Indianshowgirls.com, mywife4u, indianswingtown.com and shakeela4u.com.

Velu and his wife earlier worked at a software company and were married three years ago.

They confessed to the police that they indulged in this activity to earn quick money.

A case has been registered under the IT act and charges of child pornography. As part of investigations, police have taken the duo into custody to find out more about the clients who had registered with the child porn websites.