The Rourkela cyber police have arrested a youth of Bihar for morphing photograph of a girl in Facebook.
The case is two years old. Rourkela Cyber police station Inspector Incharge Serofina Xess informed medipersons on Tuesday about the case and about arrest of the culprit in the case.
On July 2, 2020, a 19 years old girl of Purunanapani village under Hatibadi police station of Sundargarh district, presently residing at Jagda, under Jhirpani police station here, had come to the Cyber police station here and presented a written report.
She alleged that on July 1, 2020 at about 11 am while she was accessing her Facebook account she found that a friend request had come from one Facebook account under name “Suman Lakra.” She thought that the Facebook ID belongs to a female person and therefore she accepted the friend request but after that the unknown person edited her photograph with nude photographs and sent her through Facebook messenger continuously.
When she requested to stop the nuisance, he demanded to share her Whatsapp number and threatened if she did not oblige, he would upload the edited nude photographs in Facebook public platform and would viral the same.
Based on the complaint of the girl, the Cyber police station, Rourkela, after registering a case, had started investigating the case. The police arrested Md Ahshan(25) of Kamtaulia village of Vaishali district, Bihar on June 19. The police also seized two mobile phones, SIM cards, Aadhaar card and driving licence from the possession of accused Md Ahshan.
Rourkela Cyber police station Inspector Incharge Serofina Xess informed on Tuesday,
"We arrested accused Md Ahshan from his village in Bihar and we brought him on transit remand. He was forwarded to the SDJM Court here.”