Delhi: Man held for creating fake profile of Class 8 girl, posting her morphed pics on social media

A 25yearold man has been arrested for allegedly creating fake profiles of a Class 8 student sending her obscene messages and posting her morphed nude photographs on social media police said on FridayThe accused wanted to take revenge from the Class 8 girl after being rebuked by her for allegedly harassing her friend whom he had met on social media in a similar mannerThe accused Bharat Khatar did his graduation in Bcom Honours from Delhi University via correspondence and had been working with an event management company for the last two years they saidThe accused had targeted six girls so far One of the six lodged a complaint against him in Faridabad police saidAn investigation was initiated on the complaint of the minor girls mother who alleged that her daughters fake Instagram profile was created by the accused police saidShe told the police that the accused had been sending her daughter obscene posts messages and photographs from the fake profile and stalking her a senior police officer saidA case was registered at K M Pur police station under section 354 D stalking 509 word gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman 354 A sexual harassment and punishment for sexual harassment and other relevant section of the POCSO Act according to policeDeputy Commissioner of Police South Atul Kumar Thakur said as part of investigation letters were sent to Facebook seeking details about the fake Instagram accountAccording to technical inputs the investigating team analysed the IPs and zeroed in on the suspect he said After due verification the accused was apprehended from his residence at NIT colony in Faridabad on Thursday he saidInvestigations revealed that at first the accused targeted the victims friend after contacting her through social media police saidHe sent her obscene messages following which she had heated arguments with him via Whatsapp calls She then narrated the entire incident to the Class 8 girl who rebuked the accused and warned him about not indulging in such acts the officer saidTo take revenge from the Class 8 girl he created three fake accounts in her name on Instagram and posted her morphed nude photographs on those accounts The accused also asked for sexual favours in order to delete the photographs he saidDuring interrogation the accused disclosed that earlier he had a heated argument with the victims friend on Instagram To take revenge from the Class 8 girl he created her fake profiles on Instagram Thereafter he sent her abusive contents nude pictures threatened and abused her he saidThe Faridabad Cyber Police Station has also lodged a case earlier against the accused for creating a fake profile of another girl he saidTwo mobile phones used to create fake profiles have also been recovered from the accused he addedThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever