Chennai executive held for obscene Orkut profile

Banglore, December 25: An executive of a Chennai-based firm has been arrested for creating a fake e-mail through which an “obscene profile” in the name of a housewife here was posted on a popular social networking site, police said today.

A resident here had lodged a complaint with the cyber crime police station in October about the fake profile in Orkut where her phone number was given inviting for sexual favours, following which the woman started receiving calls regularly from strangers, police said.

Following the complaint, police started an investigation which led to the arrest of the executive on December 20. His laptop was recovered and search of digital evidence by forensic tools detected the fake e-mail ID and obscene profile created by him, they said.

It was also learnt during investigation that the accused was facing a dowry harassment case in Talgathapura police station in Bangalore rural district, police said.

–PTI–