They were apprehended at around 7 am and were let off after questioning around 8 pm, police said. In order to apprehend him, a team under the supervision of DCP Bhisham Singh conducted a raid and apprehended Sumit from his house in Sector-5, Ashok Vihar Phase-III in Gurgaon, the officer said. From the details obtained, it was found that Sumit resides in Gurgaon. These type of parties are being hosted by a company based in Gurgaon and Mumbai on behalf of You Tube and Google," said Yadav. "It was also found that YouTube has been organising various parties and day seminars to encourage such activities by the pranksters. Besides his social media profiling, his profiling was done by Cyber Crime Team from various other social media websites and a video was found uploaded by 'Crazy Sumit' of a party thrown by YouTube to promote and encourage such pranksters in a restaurant '38 Barracks' in Connaught Place. Apart from this, details of his other social media accounts- Facebook, Twitter were also obtained," said the officer. "During investigation, details of his YouTube account 'Crazy Sumit' were obtained. The Cyber Cell of Crime Branch was tasked to nab the accused, he said. The video was copied and also posted on YouTube by other YouTube accounts. The video was posted on January 1 by 'Crazy Sumit' on his YouTube page and Facebook page. Sumit also told police "that abroad, it's become a trend to shoot shocking videos that could be vulgar and even here, they earn more money if they produces such videos." During interrogation, he claimed that he has been making prank videos since 2015 and had even earned in lakhs for some videos, including one where he had pranked his mother.
"We also comply with valid legal requests from authorities wherever possible, consistent with our longstanding policy," the representative said. In reply to an email query, YouTube representative said, "YouTube's Community Guidelines prohibit content featuring things like harassment, hate speech, shocking or disturbing content, illegal acts, and graphic violence, and we give our users tools to flag content so that we can review and remove anything that violates our policies. In fact, he claimed that the more shock value the video has, the more likes or hits it gets and he gets to make more money, the other officer said. He was preparing for shooting more 'shocking' videos like scaring a girl standing alone in the lift, catching hold of a girl in the bus or metro, another officer said. He thought that since he had uploaded an apology video, that was also taken down later, the matter was solved.
During interrogation, Sumit told police that he wasn't aware that a case had been registered against him. He has shared the addresses of the girls and police will be visiting their houses to talk to them.
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