Hyderabad: The Andhra Pradesh police have arrested a techie for allegedly opening a fake Facebook account of his former woman colleague and publishing obscene pictures.
T Satish, an engineer working with an MNC in Bangalore, was arrested on Thursday and officials of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) seized a laptop and a hard-disk from his possession, used for uploading allegedly obscene images of the victim, Cyber Crime SP U Rammohan said.
During the investigation, Satish confessed that he and the victim used to work together in Hyderabad and had become good friends.
According to the police, Satish had, taking advantage of his friendship with the victim, blackmailed her into giving her approval to their marriage.
Subsequently, Satish took some obscene photographs of the victim by threatening her, the CID official said adding the victim gradually moved away from him and finally stopped talking to him due to his attitude.
Angered by this, Satish hacked her email account and transmitted her obscene pictures to the contact list.
Later, he also created a fake Facebook account of hers and published her obscene pictures and sent the same to her friends and relatives, the SP said.
Following the complaint, Satish was arrested from Bangalore and was remanded to judicial custody on Friday for 15 days.
T Satish, an engineer working with an MNC in Bangalore, was arrested on Thursday and officials of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) seized a laptop and a hard-disk from his possession, used for uploading allegedly obscene images of the victim, Cyber Crime SP U Rammohan said.
During the investigation, Satish confessed that he and the victim used to work together in Hyderabad and had become good friends.
Subsequently, Satish took some obscene photographs of the victim by threatening her, the CID official said adding the victim gradually moved away from him and finally stopped talking to him due to his attitude.
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Later, he also created a fake Facebook account of hers and published her obscene pictures and sent the same to her friends and relatives, the SP said.
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