A college student resorted to stealing from her own parents, in order to pay her 20-year-old former boyfriend who had been blackmailing her, threatening to upload naked photos of her on a social networking site. The woman stole cash and gold jewellery worth R1.5 lakh from her own house to pay the accused.

Charkop resident Arihant Sawant works at a car servicing company in Malad. According to the police, Sawant met the complainant in January through a common friend, who lived in the same neighbourhood as Sawant. The friendship blossomed into a relationship. A police officer investigating the crime said, “The two were physically intimate and the accused took photos of the woman when she was naked, using his mobile phone.