A 25-year-old advocate was arrested by the Sakinaka police for allegedly threatening a minor girl on Instagram. The accused identified as Chetanya Sagar Soni, lawyer and resident of Jabalpur, created a fake account on Instagram to lure the victim to chat with him and later started blackmailing her by posting her morphed pictures on social media. A case was registered against him last year in the month of December and after a thorough investigation, the accused was arrested on Monday.

According to the police, Soni made a fake account in the name of Umar Sultan on Instagram using pictures of models to make his account look attractive. In November 2019, he sent a friend request to a 16-year-old girl based in Mumbai after which they started chatting. Later, he asked her to share photographs after he had forwarded his pictures to her. However, it became a nightmare for the teen girl after she shared her pictures as Soni used his fake account to threaten the victim with her morphed pictures and also asked her to contact him on his app-based number where he began using offensive language.