The Mumbai Crime Branch Unit 11 has arrested a 24-year-old electronics engineer, Akshay Pawar for creating a fake Instagram account of one of his women friends and posting obscene photos of her.

Police sources said Pawar hacked into the victim's Gmail account and downloaded her private pictures with her boyfriend which he uploaded on the fake account he created. He also started blackmailing her and asked for more pictures, videos, and threatened to shame her in public if she refused.