A selfie can make for a bad frame if misused. In a recent case, the Wanawadi police in Pune nabbed a cook on Friday for morphing selfies he had taken with his former employee and blackmailing her.
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The accused, 35-year-old Girish Sugandh, who has earlier worked in three hotels in Mumbai, allegedly uploaded them on social networking sites and demanded a ransom of Rs 2 lakh from the girl.
The initial statement of the victim, a 25-year-old software engineer at a Magarpatta-based multinational IT company, revealed that she had had a tiff with Sugandh in December last year when she had hired him as a chef for her restaurant, which she later converted into an ice-cream parlour.
Anil Patil, inspector in-charge of Anti-Extortion cell attached with Pune city police, said, &ldquo;On March 5, the victim noticed that Sugandh was drunk at work. When she reprimanded him, he tried to misbehave with her and she slapped him.&rdquo;
Sugandh, on being fired, misused the CCTV footage and selfies they had taken during his tenure.
According to Assistant commissioner of police (Crime branch) Rajendra Bhambare, Sugandh became a prime suspect once the victim revealed she had had a fight with him in the recent past. &ldquo;He uploaded two objectionable videos with my face morphed. I was shocked to know it was Sugandh,&rdquo; she said.
&ldquo;We laid a trap and nabbed him at Pune railway station on Friday,&rdquo; said Bhambare.
Sugandh was produced before the court of judicial magistrate yesterday and granted bail on surety&nbsp;of Rs 15,000.

In a recent case, the Wanawadi police in Pune nabbed a cook on Friday for morphing selfies he had taken with his former employee and blackmailing her

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